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Illegitimate Barrister‎ (talk • contribs • global edits • page moves • block user • block log) keeps adding blog "quotes" by Michael Totten to theme pages, even after being repeatedly asked to stop (by me and others) and being reverted multiple times by admin Ningauble. Here's an example from today, DIFF:

When I googled that "quote" to see if it is widely quoted (or notable in any way), Google gave me only... 2 results. 1) That blog, and 2) Wikiquote. I should add for the record that Illegitimate Barrister‎ has already flooded many other pages with blog "quotes" (that no one ever quotes), and most of the time they are so gratuitously insulting. Just look at the country theme pages he edited, and then featured on Wikiquote's Main Page. It's really disgraceful.

See, everyone here reads blogs. But only Illegitimate Barrister‎ seems to think it appropriate to post whatever sentences he reads and likes in non-notable blogs (usually nothing more than insults) to Wikiquote, as if that were Wikiquote's purpose. As Illegitimate Barrister shows no signs of stopping, I'm bringing this to the community's attention again. ~ DanielTom (talk) 10:39, 29 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

This is unacceptable, having been warned before I think a suspension is necessary. IOHANNVSVERVS (talk) 13:46, 1 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There are hundreds of video game pages, so it should be easier to find them; also the medium isn't listed under list of literary works, like radio and theater. CensoredScribe (talk) 20:43, 12 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Films about revenge is way too broad a category.

I have some concerns over the applicability of this category, imagine films about love as distinct from romance films; most movies have a villain and a love interest in them; I think these themes are too broad. Revenge is also very loosely applied as a justification for mass murder in several films, I'm also concerned whether all of the Friday the Thirteenth and Nightmare on Elm Street movies should be listed. I don't think that despite the title Revenge of the Sith would actually count as Anakin doesn't actually kill anyone who has wronged him he just thinks they have to justify the climax of the film; similarly the long standing historical wrongs are only perceived by characters and not actually seen on screen for films about racism such as American History X or Do The Right Thing, or nationalism for movies about war. CensoredScribe (talk) 18:37, 13 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Quote Investigator

I just found this nifty resource: http://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/07/16/product/. It seems like they do good work. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:09, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I asked them; it is alright to use Quoteinvestigator as a source, as long as you give gredit where credit is due. --Spannerjam (talk) 10:49, 17 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Columns for references

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19:26, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

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Template:Harvnb

The template:harvnb does not work with template:cite book, using the |ref=harv coding. See William Luther Pierce#Notes. Neve-selbert (talk) 20:43, 31 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kreyol Ayisien (Haitian Creole)

Haiti has many, many proverbs and these are a significant part of culture there and abroad. What do I have to do first to request a Wikquote for Kreyol Ayisien? Best Regards, Barbara (WVS) (talk) 09:11, 9 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Barbara (WVS): If you want to talk about Haitian Creole proverbs in English, you can post them here: Haitian Creole proverbs. If you want a new Wikiquote in Haitian Creoloe, that would be posted on incubator:. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:37, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wouldn't Wikiquote be more useful as a database of quotes than as a MediaWiki?

I'm making a software application and I want it to be able to show a random quote, and I've found out that Wikiquote's (MediaWiki) API can't give a quote, only a page of quotes (as on the wiki), so my application would also have to try to read the page for quotes.

Rather than this, a database of quotes (where a quote, not a page, is the smallest unit of information) could give me a random quote, making Wikiquote more useful to my application. Also, it would be easier for a contributor to add a new quote, as you wouldn't have to edit a page, just submit the quote and its author and it could find its way to the right page.

Is there any effort to turn Wikiquote into a database? I am willing to help. I think the best place to start would be to accept new quotes this way. 

// the database
const quotes = [
  { quote: "Yo.", author: "A" },
  { quote: "Eh?", author: "B" }
];

// Add a quote.
// add_quote("What?", "Dad")
const add_quote = (quote, author) =>
  quotes.push({ quote, author });

// Get a random quote.
// random_quote() => { quote: "Eh?", author: "B" }
const random_quote = () => quotes[Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length)];

// Get all of the quotes by an author.
// quotes_by_author("A") => ["Yo."]
const quotes_by_author = author =>
  quotes.filter(quote => quote.author === author).map(quote => quote.quote);

Apart from the quotes themselves, just this is more useful to my application than Wikiquote as it stands. I'm trying to say there's a lot to be gained for relatively little effort.

That is a possibility that we have discussed on many occasions. I am all for it. BD2412 T 15:17, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't think to search the Village pump archives before posting this. I'd like to edit the header to suggest doing that, but I don't have permission. --WillWhite (talk) 22:16, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@86.183.20.21, BD2412, WillWhite: I've been an advocate of this for awhile now. See also m:Structured Wikiquote. I have a domain name for just this purpose. Are you interested in participating? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:39, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Koavf: Yes. I'm thinking about using the parsing function in this library to show a random quote from Wikiquote in my application, then for the user to add the quote to a database, e.g. the one you're proposing. --WillWhite (talk) 19:27, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Vandal from it.wiki

Hi, beware Carlo Giovanardi: there is a vandal on it.wiki (the same who created the article here, i.e. Special:Contributions/79.26.41.236) filling that voice with details on trials and justice problems, which are off-topic on this project. I've seen he's doing the same here. --Superchilum (talk) 14:11, 14 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Frederick Douglass at 200

The February will mark the 200th birthday of Frederick Douglass. On Wiktionary, we plan to feature one (or more) of his works, and so are transcribing copies from scanned sources during September in preparation. This will provide an opportunity for Wikiquote to add new quotations and amend citations for quotations, with a view towards possibly featuring quotations from Douglass this February in celebration. The precise date of Douglass' birthday is unknown, so quotes could be featured at any time during the month.

It may also be useful to note that commons:Category:Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (1892) includes the illustrations from the 1892 edition of his autobiography. --EncycloPetey (talk) 16:31, 31 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]


An example of a great Douglass quote:
  • I was now getting, as I have said, one dollar and fifty cents per day.  I contracted for it; I earned it; it was paid to me; it was rightfully my own; yet, upon each returning Saturday night, I was compelled to deliver every cent of that money to Master Hugh.  And why?  Not because he earned it,—not because he had any hand in earning it,—not because I owed it to him,—nor because he possessed the slightest shadow of a right to it; but solely because he had the power to compel me to give it up.  The right of the grim-visaged pirate upon the high seas is exactly the same.
    • Chapter X of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Boston: The Anti-Slavery Office, 1845).
allixpeeke (talk) 23:42, 5 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Would it be better to have a separate page for e-mail than mail?

I was considering creating a page for e-mail which would include the quotes about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Jr.'s e-mail scandals, however I was wondering if it's necessary to make a new page, or if e-mail is considered synonymous with mail. CensoredScribe (talk) 14:44, 10 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Redwall

Hi. Does Redwall (1987 film) exist? I couldn't find infos on this film on the web. --Superchilum (talk) 15:04, 14 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Misquotes/Unattributed

I know you have a page for misquotes, but it would be nice if you could place them in situ. For instance, this quote is commonly attributed to Aesop: "We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." I have never been able to verify and I finally searched all his fables for it, couldn't find it. Then there is the quote "There are no great writers, only great rewriters," which is variously attributed to Ernest Hemingway, Ian Fleming, or James Michener.

It seems to me that it would make Wikipedia a more useful reference if you listed common errata and misattributions, so that visitors could find the correct information. I realize that would require a major change to the website, but it would help me a great deal, and I think it would help a great many other scholars and researchers as well. —This unsigned comment is by 69.29.115.191 (talk • contribs) .

Agreed. Unfortunately, features like this will probably only be implemented once we have a structured, data-driven interface. I'm working on one slowly but I'm not very experience in managing data. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 06:05, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

30,000

 

Congratulations to everyone for reaching 30,000 articles on this project! Does anyone know what day did it happen? :-) --Spinoziano (talk) 15:05, 20 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Spinoziano: Special:Statistics says that we have 30,070 pages. Looking at Special:NewPages, filtering only the main namespace, and counting backwards by 70, we arrive at Communist society, created on 2017-09-06T11:21:34, by User:Rupert loup. (Of course, there are some caveats to this, so it's difficult to say for certain when the 30,000 was made or what it was, but that's probably our best bet.) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:01, 20 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Personal comment

In general how to add a comment inside a phrase? Specifically in this quote Teen_Wolf_(Season_6)#Broken_Glass_.5B6.19.5D there is a Portuguese word, desumano. Can I link it to Wiktionary? or add a translation in form of comment? Thanks--Pierpao (talk) 22:47, 26 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Pierpao: I think both are possible. Linking to wikt:desumano is fine. Adding a short note is fine too (like this). I would put the note after the quotation, but if you want to add it "inside" next to that word you should use [square brackets]. ~ DanielTom (talk) 10:24, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks, DanielTom--Pierpao (talk) 15:33, 27 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Do the films Gone With the Wind and Revenge of the Nerds have plots in which a rape is focal, making them films about rape?

The wikipedia talk page for Revenge of the Nerds features a lengthy debate on whether or not the identity impersonation sex scene at the end of the film should be considered rape, and brings up factors of it occurring largely off camera and ambiguity as to whether or not the female character is actually aware of the guy wearing a Darth Vader masks identity, which I think merits the debate on whether that is how this movie and films with similarly heavily suggested incidents should be categorized. Many works for children will heavily imply subjects like death but skirt around directly mentioning it by name or showing it. I wasn't exactly sure what to refer to this as, but I thought as an issue with categorizing a major classic romance film, it was worth discussing outside of a talk page, if anyone else cares to comment on the subject. CensoredScribe (talk) 21:48, 1 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia talk page discussions are not citable as proof of anything. BD2412 T 17:37, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Duplicates

Hi, I'd like to report a couple of duplicate pages, which should be merged:

--Superchilum (talk) 07:20, 5 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Table of contents

I know that a table of contents appears when an article has at least four sections, but is there a way to prevent it from appearing?—This unsigned comment is by Just A Regular New Yorker (talk • contribs) 23:19, 16 October 2017‎.

Try adding __NOTOC__ ~ DanielTom (talk) 23:31, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

What do you mean by that? Should I add that before or after the article?Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 02:23, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Anywhere you want. Usually it's added after the lead paragraph, just before the "Quotes" header. ~ DanielTom (talk) 09:05, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Emergency block of 170.24.130.166

Hello,

Just a note that I blocked Special:Contributions/170.24.130.166 for vandalism. There were no local admins immediately available that I could find. Please change or remove the block as needed.

Thanks, Ajraddatz (talk) 18:34, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Are any pages considered complete and is wikiquote an endless argument over the most meaningful arbitrary samples?

I was wondering if there were any pages where every known quotation from an individual has been added already, and whether task forces for particular topics of interest might be of use in moving Wikiquote closer to completion. I find it odd that there's a limited number of quotations to add from ancient Greek philosophers, yet their pages continue to grow over the years with seemingly no end in sight despite multiple people working on them. New individuals will continue to cite old texts, however I rarely see any evidence quotes have actually been quoted by someone other than the translator. CensoredScribe (talk) 19:10, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@CensoredScribe: "I rarely see any evidence quotes have actually been quoted by someone other than the translator." Consider the following quotation:

  • Οἵη περ φύλλων γενεὴ τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν.
    φύλλα τὰ μέν τ' ἄνεμος χαμάδις χέει, ἄλλα δέ θ' ὕλη
    τηλεθόωσα φύει, ἔαρος δ' ἐπιγίγνεται ὥρη·
    ὣς ἀνδρῶν γενεὴ ἣ μὲν φύει ἣ δ' ἀπολήγει.
    • As the generation of leaves, so is that of mankind:
      some leaves the wind scatters earthwards, but the fertile
      woodland grows others as spring returns in season.
      So with men: one generation grows, while another dies.
    • Homer, Iliad (c. 750 BC), Book VI, lines 146–149 (as translated by Peter Green)

Although this is one of the most famous and widely-cited quotations from the Iliad, Google returns only 1 result for "As the generation of leaves, so is that of mankind" (with quotation marks). Of course it all depends on which translation you use. (Here are a few others: Pope's "Like leaves on trees the race of man is found" – 8 140 results; Butler's "Men come and go as leaves year by year upon the trees" – 1 210 results; Rieu's "Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees" – 993 results; Lattimore's "As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity" – 2 230 results; Fitzgerald's "Very like leaves upon this earth are the generations of men" – 144 results; Fagles's "Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men" – 4 320 results; .....) I'll let you figure out the rest. ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:07, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Why do you not add any quotes, about the Iliad, like commentary from well known professors analyzing it? You currently have just two that mention it specifically from Northrop Frye and Voltaire, are those seriously the only two notable commentaries that have been written on it? Also, are you close to being done with adding quotes to the page for the Iliad yet and how many of those thousands of google search results you think are links to the blogs from unpublished unknowns that are completely worthless here? Including citations for every academic piece of writing on the Iliad would be exhausting but is the sort of thing researchers do. The page currently indicates that no one who doesn't translate Homer has ever actually recited a passage of his before, when like the google search results, there are thousands. I think showing a particular passage has been cited once or twice would be a nice objective way of showing it's wide spread value to society and better represents the consensus of academia on the importance of particular passages. I appreciate you having presented the number of google search results for each iteration, that information does illustrate the general level of continuing popularity of a particular translation for a particular passage. CensoredScribe (talk) 22:00, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Let's look at the Frye quotation you mentioned:

  • It is hardly possible to overestimate the importance for Western Literature of the Iliad's demonstration that the fall of an enemy, no less than of a friend or leader, is tragic and not comic. With the Iliad, once for all, an objective and disinterested element enters into the poet's vision of human life. Without this element, poetry is merely instrumental to various social aims, to propaganda, to amusement, to devotion, to instruction: with it, it acquires the authority that since the Iliad it has never lost, an authority based, like the authority of science, on the vision of nature as an impersonal order.

This insight into Homer's mind, and into the purpose of poetry itself, is widely quoted and of interest even to those who have never read the Iliad. Per Wikiquote:Wikiquote, "quotations the essence of wisdom refined to a handful of well-chosen words." I don't expect there to be many more quotations about the Iliad that fit this definition, but of course I can't be sure. Maybe there are. (It is said of Virgil that, in writing the Aeneid, "lest anything should impede his momentum, he would let certain things pass unfinished; others he propped up, as it were, with lightweight verses, joking that they were placed there as struts, to hold up the edifice until the solid columns arrived." Wikiquote articles are constructed in a similar fashion, the way I see it.) This is a collaborative project that will never be "complete". ~ DanielTom (talk) 23:10, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It's true that as a whole Wikiquote will never be complete, and historical figures continue to have material written on them, however given the abundance of material written on the subject the page seems rather lacking, it could really use improvement from the inclusion of contemporary experts opinions. Northorp Frie died in 1991, what living authors writings on Homer would you recommend?
Also, do you think William Godwin had anything interesting to say about Virgil, perhaps you've had time to read his entry in Lives of the Necromancers and found a suitable selection to add. CensoredScribe (talk) 05:13, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
No. I'm not interested in the stupid medieval traditions about Virgil being a magician or a necromancer. Needless to say, if you can find a "quotable" (i.e. not too concerned with particulars – which rules out almost the entire Lives of the Necromancers – and preferably widely-quoted) quotation about Virgil, that is notable and memorable, even if it is stupid, do feel free to add it. ~ DanielTom (talk) 11:18, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Excluding medieval traditions would result in most of the quotes on religious figures with miracles attributed to them being removed from Wikiquote, and you continue to avoid the question of what living authority do you recommend on Homer, perhaps because you don't know of any, nor are you interested in what any of the living have to say on the subject. Also you just said yourself it's a tradition, indicating it's been repeated in more than one source, so presumably if I just found the source Godwin used, you could have to concede that source has been quoted before, at least the once. Now define widely quoted, how many times one must be quoted to be widely quoted (according to you) and how it is someones words can start a tradition without them being widely quoted. CensoredScribe (talk) 18:30, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
According to me, if it is quoted (i.e. presented as a memorable or insightful quote, not a long excerpt) in any reasonably-notable (e.g. book) secondary source (just one is enough) about Virgil, you are welcome to add it to Virgil#Quotes about Virgil. ~ DanielTom (talk) 18:45, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you Daniel Tom, the just one secondary source statement is incredibly helpful. Now if you would just mind answering if there is a contemporary living academic source you are aware of who has been widely quoted on Homer, I would like to know who would be the ideal person to interview. CensoredScribe (talk) 19:45, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I don't know of any "living authority" on Homer. But I'm no expert on the subject. "the ideal person to interview"? There are some videos on YouTube of Stanley Lombardo reading from his translations of the Iliad and the Odyssey which you may want to check out. (Here's the famous recognition scene between Odysseus and Penelope.) ~ DanielTom (talk) 19:54, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Using quotations for intros and racism in the United States.

The intro right now for the page Racism in the United States is a single sentence that suggests it started in the 19th century. Daniel Tom, ever constructive, thought it would be in the best interest of wikiquote to revert my edit rather than fix it or make their own improvements to the factual accuracy of the description. They also noted I didn't attribute a quotation in the intro which brings up the question of whether or not a quotation can be used in the intro, as Wikipedia often uses them in it's opening descriptions on a subject. I was also also told, this was POV pushing for the quoted section saying there are lingering socio economic effects. CensoredScribe (talk) 17:45, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that the intro was a bit lacking (so I've expanded it, using the intro from Wikipedia). I would not recommend using a quote in an intro, instead we usually just stick to factual information describing the page's subject. ~ UDScott (talk) 00:18, 20 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Currently there are a number of quotes on the pages for Organic chemistry, Botany, Chemistry, Astronomy, Machines, Technology, Nuclear weapons, Nuclear war, Nuclear power]], Wind, Geology History of Science and Science taken from Today in Science History; and thought it better to start a separate thread on the subject for those uninterested in wading through a lengthy conservation with Daniel Tom on my general conduct as an editor to address a larger issue. If it's simply a matter of reformatting the citations that can be done, but if all of the quotes Today in Science History has collected are off limits, or if using only 10 of them is acceptable, I would like to know why that is and how Wikiquote can ever hope to compete with larger preexisting collections of sourced quotations. CensoredScribe (talk) 18:23, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

You can't just dump entire pages from "Today in Science History" on Wikiquote. And, as I said, quote selection and formatting is not the only concern, because you also copied the references word-for-word without double-checking them and without attribution. If you are not double-checking (confirming) the quotations and references (one by one), the least you can do is add "as reported in [Today in Science History link]" to the citation. ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:27, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Would someone like to collaborate on a page, or does no one like me that much or care about teamwork?

I would be willing to assist anyone with working collaboratively on any task at Wikiquote and would like to coordinate efforts through talk page discussions for those willing to speak with me, however I'm afraid no one will offer to do so I've been accused of medical conditions I don't have. It's been months since anyone thanked me for any edit despite the fact I've added quite a bit to major articles, and those few acknowledgements that I'm not a complete failure almost always came from Peter1C or in the very beginning from Kalki. I gather I am not welcome here, as at no point did an administrator say calling someone a mentally damaged five year old was unbecoming of this site, yet I was alleged of ageism and blocked by Kalki. Perhaps if I had done what Daniel Tom did and said I think user I bully has X disease...but than I realized they are just a troll so I'm not actually accusing them of that because if I did that I would be blocked, I'm just throwing it out there for others to latch onto.
Anyways, I'm leaving; if you would like to say your goodbyes or ask me to stay and help out with something, I would appreciate it. I would say this has been fun but being insulted constantly is not remotely pleasant and I could have learned these quotes without adding them and being ridiculed for being lazy by people refuse to work together constructively on anything, even a user talkpage. CensoredScribe (talk) 19:45, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

becoming an administrator

All of the articles that talk about becoming an administrator say you must have been an editor for a while. This is a vague term. What is meant by "a while"?Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 02:34, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Usually a period of regular activities over at least a few months are deemed appropriate before serious consideration for administrator positions are initiated. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:44, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Would two years normally be enough time? Also, does being an administrator on another wiki or having a questionable sense of taste in regards to page decoration factor in at all? It would be great if there was a more thorough guide to becoming an administrator, listing do's and don'ts. CensoredScribe (talk) 18:24, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Two years should be enough, subject to users' opinions.--Jusjih (talk) 02:22, 6 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Having a good record as an admin elsewhere is certainly a plus point. However, every wiki is different and experience on one wiki may not transfer well to another one.--Abramsky (talk) 15:54, 7 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Will being blocked from Wikipedia affect the ability of a user to become an administrator on Wikiquote? Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 17:41, 23 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Being blocked from Wikipedia can affect the outcome; if the block was long enough ago and you have proven to be a constructive editor, there should be nothing stopping said user. I'd suggest (assuming you were talking about yourself) you request an unblock over at Wikipedia, mentioning the constructive edits you have made here. hiàn 05:03, 26 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Does presentation copyright prevent a quote from being used if it is already written on another online source?Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 02:37, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No, but it means that generally presentations or listings of quotes should not be copied in bulk from currently copyrighted sources, and formatting of citations of any individual quotes should be adapted to general practices here, and use of any distinctive commentaries or distinctive formatting of citations, sections or pages used elsewhere rigorously avoided. The presentation of entire listings used elsewhere, or extensive portions of them in particular forms, should definitely be avoided. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:58, 23 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Bulk is a bit vague, is there a rough number for how many is too many? It also seems to come off a bit as being finders keepers in regards to laying claim to famous quotations that are in the public domain, like laying claim to the moon. Mass copying of quotes from Today in Science History has been discouraged, while Real Buddha Quotes seems to be acceptable, with the distinction seemingly arbitrary. I imagine having just said that, this will be goodbye Buddha quotes. CensoredScribe (talk) 18:24, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Years

Is there a concept of creating articles featuring quotes about a certain year? If so is it for any years or only notable years in history?Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 11:13, 30 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I would prefer a sortable table like for advertising slogans, but we need certain kind of consensus to unify the future format.--Jusjih (talk) 04:28, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Participate in Dispute Resolution Focus Group

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If you are interested in participating, please add your name to the signup list on the Meta-Wiki page.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to learn from the Wikimedia community. We value all of your opinions and look forward to hearing from you. JosephNegotiation (talk) 22:54, 1 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

One question, are you interested in only opinions and experiences from Wikipedia and it's satellite projects like Wikiquote, or from any that use media wiki software, such as Rational Wiki, Encyclopedia Dramatica and fandom wikis? CensoredScribe (talk) 18:24, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Community Wishlist Survey 2017

Hey everyone,

The Community Wishlist Survey is the process when the Wikimedia communities decide what the Wikimedia Foundation Community Tech should work on over the next year.

The Community Tech team is focused on tools for experienced Wikimedia editors. You can post technical proposals from now until November 20. The communities will vote on the proposals between November 28 and December 12. You can read more on the 2017 wishlist survey page. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 20:19, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Username

Is there any way to change your username?Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 02:08, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Just A Regular New Yorker: See m:Changing username. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:36, 8 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I haven't dealt with these in years, and name changes are now done only by inter-wiki stewards, and not by officials of individual wikis. Check things out at meta:Steward requests/Username changes on Meta-wiki. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:44, 8 November 2017 (UTC) // oops — didn't notice this had already been answered. So it goes…[reply]

Changes to the global ban policy

Hello. Some changes to the community global ban policy have been proposed. Your comments are welcome at m:Requests for comment/Improvement of global ban policy. Please translate this message to your language, if needed. Cordially. Matiia (Matiia) 00:34, 12 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Incels

Is it really appropriate to categorize by Category:Male incels and Category:Female incels? I don't think so. --Superchilum (talk) 08:58, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

No. Admin, please delete. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:16, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
 Y Done ~ UDScott (talk) 17:25, 13 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

es:Plantilla:Cita destacada

It would be cool if we could import this template into English Wikiquote. ~ DanielTom (talk) 13:45, 15 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@DanielTom: Well, you can! It's all an open license. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:49, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

how to place pictures on Wikipedia on Wikiquote

Happily now I know how to place a picture of Wiki-Commons on Wikiquote. But many times I can not find a picture of a modern artist on Wiki-Commons, but I can find some on Wikipedia. How can I use these pictures from Wikipedia, to place them on Wikiquote

I like to place more pictures on the Wikiquote page of Abstract Expresssionism, for instance: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Abstract_expressionism. And there are some good pictures on Wikipedia to use, like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%27Boon%27_oil_on_canvas_painting_by_James_Brooks,_1957,_Tate_Gallery.jpg#/media/File:%27Boon%27_oil_on_canvas_painting_by_James_Brooks,_1957,_Tate_Gallery.jpg

How do I handle this. Can somebody please describe the steps for me? FotoDutch (talk)

You can't, because those images are protected by copyright. Wikipedia allows "fair use" images, Wikiquote doesn't. ~ DanielTom (talk) 21:01, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Strange that there are different levels of copyright for one Wiki.FotoDutch (talk)
@FotoDutch: I agree that it can be confusing and each language edition can choose their own local policy. Compare w:en:A Love Supreme with w:es:A Love Supreme--only the English one has an album cover (tho the other photos could be added to Spanish version). —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:32, 16 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Can an anonymous editor create a new page?

Hi, This seems like a friendly place, and I love quotes. But I am not sure how much time I have to contribute, so I was wondering if it makes sense to become a user? Since I think I would like to ultimately create a new page, the question is, will I have to be a confirmed user before I can do that, like on regular Wikipedia, or are things more lenient here? Thanks. 196.251.250.128 11:44, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If you already have a Wikipedia account, then you have one here, too--it seems like you're familiar with that site. I'd definitely recommend making an account and we hope you'll stay here. All users can create new pages. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:09, 19 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

New print to pdf feature for mobile web readers

The Readers web team will be deploying a new feature this week to make it easier to download PDF versions of articles on the mobile website.

Providing better offline functionality was one of the highlighted areas from the research done by the New Readers team in Mexico, Nigeria, and India. The teams created a prototype for mobile PDFs which was evaluated by user research and community feedback. The prototype evaluation received positive feedback and results, so development continued.

For the initial deployment, the feature will be available to Google Chrome browsers on Android. Support for other mobile browsers to come in the future. For Chrome, the feature will use the native Android print functionality. Users can choose to download a webpage as a PDF. Mobile print styles will be used for these PDFs to ensure optimal readability for smaller screens.

The feature is available starting Wednesday, Nov 15. For more information, see the project page on MediaWiki.org.

Thank you!

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 22:07, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Profanity

What is Wikiquote's policy on profanity? Do we quote it as is, or replace with with symbols(###,***,etc)?Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 00:11, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

We quote the provided words; there is no censorship of the provided words here. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:12, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

QOTD image too big, on the wrong side

 
Screenshot of the Main Page today. Shouldn't the QOTD image be smaller, and on the left?

In my opinion the QOTD image should be smaller, and on the left. Agree/Disagree?

Currently the size of the Quote of the Day image simply dwarfs the quote of the day itself.

(Ningauble actually used to reduce the size of the Quote of the Day images – with the edit summary "reduce excessive whitespace", some 40 times –, but Kalki still persists, which is why I'm asking for community input.)

Thanks ~ DanielTom (talk) 13:40, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

  • Yes, think the image should be smaller. Image size was discussed several times but Kalki nevertheless has indeed persisted. (I notice that, since it was pointed out today, UDScott quietly reduced the size of today's image.[1])
I do not think it is a big deal for the image to be on the right when it is a portrait facing left. The convention of having the image face toward the text seems sensible enough. It is a much larger problem that the QOTD box design overwhelms practically everything above the fold of the Main Page. ~ Ningauble (talk) 17:26, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, I agree - sorry for being quiet (I intended to respond here, but after I reduced the size a bit, I was called away from my computer until now). ~ UDScott (talk) 20:19, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Kalki is still making the images too big. ~ DanielTom (talk) 09:35, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've reduced the size again. ~ UDScott (talk) 12:29, 5 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
He just keeps doing it. ~ DanielTom (talk) 19:27, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I again reduced the size. ~ UDScott (talk) 22:42, 10 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Same problem, different day. ~ DanielTom (talk) 11:11, 12 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Again. ~ DanielTom (talk) 00:08, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]
In the past, I have reduced the image size (and I have been trying to keep an eye on them. But this one does not appear to be an issue - it is at the reduced size of 222px that we have been using. ~ UDScott (talk) 22:06, 9 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Mobile version of “quote of the day”

Did anyone else notice what today’s (November 27, 2017) “quote of the day” looks like on the mobile website? The picture on the right is abnormally small and it was nearly impossible to tell it was a photo from the small screen of a mobile device. In general, I find that sometimes things don’t convert well from desktop to mobile. I don’t know enough about editing Wikiquote to fix the problem but I am trying to bring this to the attention of one who does.Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 01:38, 27 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

User Page Protection

Is there any way to get a user page protected? My user page has been vandalized by a user claiming that I am a kitten. This is not a joke. What can I do to prevent this from occurring again? Just A Regular New Yorker (talk) 02:36, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Page under deletion which needs to be controlled

Hi, there's TheKingHusker, under deletion process, which is vandalized by removing the template of deletion ("vfd-new"). Just FYI, so that more eyes are better than few eyes to control it :-) maybe a semi-protection? --Superchilum (talk) 11:26, 16 December 2017 (UTC) p.s.: BTW, isn't there something like w:Wikipedia:Requests for administrator attention?[reply]

Semiprotected for a week. (Other boards for requesting assistance are at WQ:AN and WQ:VIP.) ~ Ningauble (talk) 18:29, 16 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata request for comment on the ideal data import proccess

 

Dear all

We are currently running a discussion on Wikidata about what the ideal data import process looks like. We want to get the thoughts of people who work on different Wikimedia projects who have different needs and knowledge of different kinds of data to make it our roadmap as inclusive as possible, please take a look.

Many thanks

John Cummings (talk) 01:17, 25 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Here are a few more articles that I've started on Wikiquote over the past couple of years, and that aren't linked to from their corresponding Wikipedia articles ('cause I can't edit en.wikipedia). I notice that when I create an article, admin Miszatomic and (more recently) fellow-regular-user Risto hot sir sometimes add {{wikiquote}} to the external links section of its respective Wikipedia article (thanks guys), but the ones in this list are still lacking it. There is, of course, absolutely no hurry to do this somewhat tiresome task. The ones I'd appreciate to see linked to from Wikipedia the most are in bold.

• William Muir • Paul Davies • Elijah Fenton • Charles Symmons • Hermann Samuel Reimarus • Carnation Revolution • Posidonius • Buso Renkin • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon • Ismail ibn Musa Menk • Emma Donoghue • Pokémon Gold and Silver • Poliziano • António Guterres • Marcion of Sinope • Charles Williams • Gilbert Wakefield • Thomas Yalden • Richard Stanyhurst • Lucille Clifton • Terrance Hayes • Joseph Warton • Allen Mandelbaum • Edward Fairfax • The Prince and the Pauper • Tales from Shakespeare • Aulus Gellius • Derek Parfit • Richard Maitland, 4th Earl of Lauderdale • Cameron Duncan • Os Lusíadas • David Frum • Colette Dowling • Gil Vicente • Alice Oswald • The Faerie Queene • Masterplan (band) • Salvador Sobral • Nguyễn Du • Book of Lamentations • John Hoole • Juan Luis Vives • John Miles Foley • Cantar de Mio Cid • Stanley Lombardo • Anthony Kenny • Olaudah Equiano • Shi Nai'an • Cao Xueqin • Ruan Ji • Zhu Yizun • Jin Shengtan • Nguyễn Gia Thiều • Trần Tế Xương • Chế Lan Viên • Đặng Trần Côn • Bei Dao • Xi Murong • Arthur Waley

Thanks, and Happy New Year everybody. ~ DanielTom (talk) 23:14, 30 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Miszatomic: thank you! ~ DanielTom (talk) 11:56, 31 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Chat about a structured Wikiquote

From Wikiquote:Village pump archive 51:

Wouldn't Wikiquote be more useful as a database of quotes than as a MediaWiki?

I'm making a software application and I want it to be able to show a random quote, and I've found out that Wikiquote's (MediaWiki) API can't give a quote, only a page of quotes (as on the wiki), so my application would also have to try to read the page for quotes.

Rather than this, a database of quotes (where a quote, not a page, is the smallest unit of information) could give me a random quote, making Wikiquote more useful to my application. Also, it would be easier for a contributor to add a new quote, as you wouldn't have to edit a page, just submit the quote and its author and it could find its way to the right page.

Is there any effort to turn Wikiquote into a database? I am willing to help. I think the best place to start would be to accept new quotes this way. 

// the database
const quotes = [
  { quote: "Yo.", author: "A" },
  { quote: "Eh?", author: "B" }
];

// Add a quote.
// add_quote("What?", "Dad")
const add_quote = (quote, author) =>
  quotes.push({ quote, author });

// Get a random quote.
// random_quote() => { quote: "Eh?", author: "B" }
const random_quote = () => quotes[Math.floor(Math.random() * quotes.length)];

// Get all of the quotes by an author.
// quotes_by_author("A") => ["Yo."]
const quotes_by_author = author =>
  quotes.filter(quote => quote.author === author).map(quote => quote.quote);

Apart from the quotes themselves, just this is more useful to my application than Wikiquote as it stands. I'm trying to say there's a lot to be gained for relatively little effort.

That is a possibility that we have discussed on many occasions. I am all for it. BD2412 T 15:17, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't think to search the Village pump archives before posting this. I'd like to edit the header to suggest doing that, but I don't have permission. --WillWhite (talk) 22:16, 12 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@86.183.20.21, BD2412, WillWhite: I've been an advocate of this for awhile now. See also m:Structured Wikiquote. I have a domain name for just this purpose. Are you interested in participating? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:39, 16 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Koavf: Yes. I'm thinking about using the parsing function in this library to show a random quote from Wikiquote in my application, then for the user to add the quote to a database, e.g. the one you're proposing. --WillWhite (talk) 19:27, 23 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]
@Koavf: Could we have a real-time chat? --WillWhite (talk) 21:26, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@WillWhite: Sure. Do you mean IM or video conference or phone call? Do you have in mind talking one-on-one or a community brain-storming session? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:00, 6 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Koavf: I was thinking a one-on-one phone or video call, at least first. Do you have Skype? --WillWhite (talk) 08:42, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@WillWhite: I could get Skype but I'd prefer to use Google Hangouts or (even better) something that is free software. Would that work for you? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 11:05, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Koavf: Jitsi today? --WillWhite (talk) 15:57, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@Koavf: I'm in UTC, going to sleep soon. How about you? --WillWhite (talk) 19:40, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@WillWhite: And I just woke up (long nite!) —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:50, 7 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't suppose anyone has ever heard of a journal of video game studies, or a news paper that reviews video games?

I've been trying to look for academic writing on video games to supplement interviews, unlike a news paper review for a best selling book, art exhibition, TV show or film, I don't think the reviews in PC Gamer, Nintendo Power or Electronic Gaming Monthly are sufficiently notable enough to include. I thought this worth discussing here for anyone interested in expanding out coverage of video games, or explaining why the medium is inherently non notable. From what I've heard and seen, even some of the more active editors here have stated they have played video games and our quote limit for games has been discussed as being overly stringent. CensoredScribe (talk) 14:38, 4 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@CensoredScribe: CiteSeerX, Google Scholar and Google Books give several results on the topic. Marsha Kinder, Mark J. P. Wolf and James Paul Gee among other academics have written books on the subject according with a quick search. Rupert loup (talk) 00:25, 10 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Why was the births category deleted?

I was under the impression good categories didn't need to immediately be populated if the applicability of them to numerous pages was obvious, so what is the rationale for why was this deleted, was it because I didn't add a certain number of entries by a certain point after the categories creation? The categories weren't actually empty, there just weren't many entries, exactly how many pages I need to add to avoid speedy deletion? The categories are used on wikipedia and apply to every person page, the deletion seemed rather arbitrary and counter productive. CensoredScribe (talk) 18:24, 7 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Categories of births are much less relevant here than on Wikipedia. If someone has a page here but not on Wikipedia, we will likely delete it as not notable.--Jusjih (talk) 03:19, 29 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Facebook article

I just noticed that the Facebook page suddenly disappeared. It broke the linked words to the page also. Though still it can be accessed by its url. Rupert loup (talk)

Would it help to have categories for video games by year or console?

I think years would definitely help but I'm not sure if by console or developers is needed any more than categorizing films by the actors or cinematographers that appear in them, which we don't do because it would take up too much room to list everyone involved in a film. By film studio might be an acceptable category for movies given the large amount of creative control the studios have on the finished product. Do you think it would help? CensoredScribe (talk) 23:51, 11 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know about the video game questions (although I am inclined to not have so many categories and do not really see the need), but as for the question regarding films by studio, this question has been considered before (see Wikiquote:Votes for deletion/Category:Films by studio) and found to be not needed. ~ UDScott (talk) 02:05, 12 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The comparison to categorizing books by their publishers is apt for both. I think directors are unique for wikiquotes purposes in being useful creators of works to categorize films by, but I don't think more than one or two lead designers for video games have their own pages for quotations on wikiquote, so doing this for electronic game designers would be of much less help for learning more quotations. On a related note, I think screen writers can have almost as much of an impact on a film as the director, however based off the number of interviews I've read, people are generally less interested in hearing what they have to say compared to directors, or even the actors whom are not used for categories. Correct me if I'm wrong in this, but if I'm not mistaken, the reason films and TV shows aren't categorized by their actor on wikiquote is because they seldom wrote any of their own lines, (with the extremely rare exception of an improvisational program like Whose Line Is It Anyway? or reality television, but occurs with some frequency with famous lines in films.) Though a bad idea for a category, I think pages for the Hollywood studios and book publishers themselves could be interesting as their own pages, there's plenty of interviews and memoirs discussing the studios and we have a category for companies; I noticed we have pages for fast food restaurants but no book publishing companies, even those well known for their niche markets like Harlequin Enterprises or Tor Books, just individuals who were publishers. I'm surprised given there aren't more pages for the prominent newspapers like The New York Times or news networks like Fox News or BBC News as well, as unlike book publishers, their editorial stance is more frequently presented on a wide variety of issues, and they feature prominent in public discourse. CensoredScribe (talk) 18:17, 13 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Acceptable descriptions for works.

I was wondering what the consensus is on providing brief one or two sentence summaries for works, particularly video games. I recently had such a description reverted without explanation as to why, for the game Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and as I don't particularly like reverting other editors, espescially administrators. I was hoping someone here might be able to provide insight as to the basis for this dispute and how best to resolve it. CensoredScribe (talk) 20:57, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiquote is not an encyclopedia. ~ DanielTom (talk) 21:49, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
That's correct, however normally there is an intro for pages though consisting of a single sentence describing the basic plot of the work. This isn't just for video games, TV and film either, just take a look at the pages for Ulysses (novel) or Tropic of Cancer which no one seems to have previously objected to the existence of the descriptions for as being too "encyclopedic" for wikiquote. This seems a rather uncontroversial move which is why this level of hostility to the notion seems rather unfounded, I would appreciate an explanation for the opposition. CensoredScribe (talk) 22:27, 14 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Like DanielTom said: WQ is not WP. The lede already provides a link to WP where this info can be found. The fact that some articles may have this information doesn't change this fact. Using other articles as an argument (Whataboutism) is not welcome. W\|/haledad (Talk to me) 13:06, 16 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I wouldn't mind having no descriptions for any works. Forgive me, but I'm confused why you call up the soviet era political tactic of "whataboutism" which is defined as, "a variant of the tu quoque logical fallacy that attempts to discredit an opponent's position by charging them with hypocrisy without directly refuting or disproving their argument, which is particularly associated with Soviet and Russian propaganda. When criticisms were leveled at the Soviet Union, the Soviet response would be "What about..." followed by an event in the Western world." The only world being discussed here is the world of descriptions on wikiquote, which was made clear from the title of this topic, no one is dodging any questions and I have not veered from that initial topic onto an unrelated tangent such as an ad hominem attack on a debating party: I am merely using the full sample set of descriptions on wikiquote, it is readily apparent wikiquote is not wikipedia, I fail to see what the relevance of that statement to WQs internal consistency is. I don't particularly care if we don't have any descriptions, I just think the pages should all be consistent in their use of or lack of descriptive text, otherwise some new editors will get the wrong impression of what we are looking for as we send mixed signals by some pages for works having descriptive texts and others not, sending editors off in two opposite directions. It's a minor issue either way as most people do not edit the article intros. CensoredScribe (talk) 16:12, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

MonsterHunter32 mass-censoring pages again

MonsterHunter32 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) is mass-censoring pages again, without even discussion on the talkpage. Can someone please stop him? --Jedi3 (talk) 11:33, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm only removing his non-notable and non-related quotes. Besides Jedi3 can discuss anytime when I'm free. Do remeber that this user while talking about discussion is still edit-warring at Somnath temple until a few days ago, where he still hasn't finished the argument at Talk:Somnath temple. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 11:37, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Even though I decided to stay away on admin advice, Jedi3 again reverted me with false claims. Despise the argument over even one of his quotes never being resolved, he used the false reason "see talk" to add back his non-notable content. He could only add it back, because I decided to let it go. However, he used false claims like he had some victory in the argument over the quotes.

Here are his reverts, [2], [3], [4], [5], [6].

Not withstanding most of my edits aren't about Islam, they are mostly about Muslim rulers, Jedi3's disruptive edits have also extended to European Christian rulers and ancient India.

He actually made 6 reverts, another one without any reason : [7]. He has lied multiple times, but I don't want to edit-war.

This is not his first time making false claims, his made-up and unrelated quotes: [8], [9], [10]. Despite me pointing out with original sources and teh quotes themselves about his false claims in these edits, he still refuses to accept it, see his denials despite being exposed: [11], [12]

Some false claims of "massive blanking" despite only one quote being removed: [13], [14], [15].

It is also clear, that Jedi3 hasn't bothered to verify his quotes from the original sources, and is just adding based on whjetevr he reads especially from hindutva-leaning authors. just recently he showed thew truth of his edit process, when at Babur, I couldn't find the quote Jedi3 added I simply shifted it to disputed before it could be verified. Only after I said so, Jedi3 bothered to verify it, however it isn't exactly the book of the Hindutva-leaning SR Goel claimed: [16]. He has shown the same behavior of not verifying his claims: In the last part of my comment here, I pointed out with the original sources he used for a quote that it is not about Muhammad bin Qasim. He however has refused to accept his wrongdoings about it: [17], [18]. Similarly, at Talk:Sikandar Butshikan, he indirectly admitted to copying quotes from Wikipedia without checking if they're true when I pointed out his quote doesn't exist in the orignal source.

Action needs to be taken against this disruptive person otherwise it's a mockery of moderation and the Wiki policies. I didn't edit-war with Jedi3 and reported him to Kalki and UDScott too. But no action has been taken. That's why i was forced to remove his non-notable quotes. Please take action against him. I haven't stopped him from discussion. It is he who often abruptly stops discussion. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 13:29, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]


MonsterHunter32 should be blocked

MonsterHunter32 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) should be blocked for his massive vandalism and mass blanking of quotes without even discussion on the talkpage, which other editors have also called a massive and almost indiscriminate removals and which as disruptive vandalism are surely a blockable offence.

He has been warned enough already.

He has been told enough times already that he should at the very least observe this rule:

All quotes removed by User:MonsterHunter32 must always be moved by him to the article talkpage with a note that they were removed from the article, giving full reasoning (for each removed quote), as required by Template:Remove. Otherwise, the status quo (uncensored) version should be kept and/or restored.

Other editors have noticed the same, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bishonen#Need_your_help_again and https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/User_talk:UDScott#MonsterHunter32 and other places.

Also see Daniels' latest comment here https://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Wikiquote:Administrators%27_noticeboard&diff=prev&oldid=2391342

Do the admins think that the editors’ time is so worthless that users like MH32 will continue creating problems one by one, and each time others will take the pain to go to various noticeboards to seek a justice only to find that MH32 is back again with his problematic behavior? How many times do we have to come back here before we decide that this is a net negative to the project? How much time does he have to waste before enough is enough?

I will also gladly respond to any editor about any questions regarding the invalid and poor excuses that MH32 is giving for his massive censorship, most of which are deliberate misrepresentations or worse, including his most recent one at Babar (where he claimed that he couldn't find it in the source, even though the page of the source he linked does discuss the very issue MH32 is complaining about in the footnote). And what is needed, after the pages are protected and MH32 is blocked, is some input and comments from other editors about the deleted quotes, which I have already asked for many times, since the discussion with someone like MH32 who refuses to make the slightest concession that others might have a different opinion on any issue is unproductive and third party opinons are needed. --Jedi3 (talk) 13:41, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Please block disruptive Jedi3

User:Jedi3 keeps on falsely claiming I am "censoring him" despite me leaving intact many of his notable quotes no matter what they are. I've already explained to him that I won't remove any notable quotes. He must stop with his false bad-faith accusations

Jedi3 has been constantly edit-warring despite being warned by admins and told plainly some of his quotes aren't memorable and seem to be only meant for POV-pushing. While criticising me, Kalki criticised Jedi3 as well tating the biases are leading to "lapses of both logic and fairness".

Also after he failed to prove his quotes as notable, he keeps on falsely calling them eloquent, poignant, witty, pithy etc despite me already explaining to him at Talk:Somnath temple as well as Talk:Aurangzeb that his quotes don't even fit within the dictionary definition of what he keeos calling them.

Also persistent history of Jedi3's edit-warring from the history of these articles: [19], [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26].

Jedi3 again reverted me with false claims. Despise the argument over even one of his quotes never being resolved, he used the false reason "see talk" to add back his non-notable content. He could only add it back, because I decided to let it go. However, he used false claims like he had some victory in the argument over the quotes.

Here are his reverts, [27], [28], [29], [30], [31].

In some of these cases there were only one quote or the quotes were not as Jedi3 had added them. Despite pointing out so, he doesn't accept it.

He has edit-warred even after being warned and blocked in the past. Right after UDScott warned him, he still kept edit-warring at multiple articles: [32], [33], [34], [35], [36], [37].

Jedi3 was blocked by UDScott for a week. But he resumed edit-warring: [38], [39], [40].

This is not his first time making false claims, his made-up and unrelated quotes: [41], [42], [43]. Despite me pointing out with original sources and teh quotes themselves about his false claims in these edits, he still refuses to accept it, see his denials despite being exposed: [44], [45]

His vandalism has caused a lot of disruotion especially as it prevents me from adding quotes and making useful contribution. :Here are the quotes I added at Aurangzeb: [46], [47], [48] and [49]. Also at the same time, Jedi3 kept edit-warring, sapping most of my time in dealing with his constant edit-warring. I told him not to edit-war while calling for cooperation. He didn't listen. See [50], [51], [52], [53], [54], [55], [56], [57]. Also same thing has happened at Noakhali riots. He kept edit-warring over one non-notable quote that i removed and in the process also kept removing the notable quotes I added. these are my additions: [58], [59] and [60]. I went away for some time as I can't keep editing forever. Then Jedi3 tried to edit-war here as well, impacting my quotes in the process as well.: [61] and [62]. This despite his removed quote only being one in number.

Also Jedi3 keeps claiming Template:Remove: "Quotes should never be removed without a comment in the edit summary, and should almost always be moved to the Talk page with a note that they were removed from the article, giving full reasoning."

It is also clear, that Jedi3 hasn't bothered to verify his quotes from the original sources, and is just adding based on whjetevr he reads especially from hindutva-leaning authors. just recently he showed thew truth of his edit process, when at Babur, I couldn't find the quote Jedi3 added I simply shifted it to disputed before it could be verified. Only after I said so, Jedi3 bothered to verify it, however it isn't exactly the book of the Hindutva-leaning SR Goel claimed: [63]. He has shown the same behavior of not verifying his claims: In the last part of my comment here, I pointed out with the original sources he used for a quote that it is not about Muhammad bin Qasim. He however has refused to accept his wrongdoings about it: [64], [65]. Similarly, at Talk:Sikandar Butshikan, he indirectly admitted to copying quotes from Wikipedia without checking if they're true when I pointed out his quote doesn't exist in the orignal source.

It says almost always should be moved. Regardless I tried to move and discuss in the past but there was no result. He even abruptly stops discussion in the middle. Notice the time difference between his subsequent comments at Talk:Somnath temple (24 days), Talk: Aurangzeb (6 days), Talk:India (4 days). The last article India wasn't even related to our dispute, yet he started repeating the same claims he made at the noticeboards and other talk pages there.

Please block this disruptive edit-warring vandal immediately. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 16:49, 19 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]


Table for a summary of some of the steps taken for dispute resolution.

Action Jedi Comments
Asking admins about observing rules, especially also Template:Remove. I did ask to confirm that Template:Remove should be observed by MH32 and should be enforced, to which it was replied "I agree that prior to removal, since there is disagreement regarding quotes, they should be moved to the talk page where they could be discussed."
Notifying admins of edit warring despite warnings and notifications about observance of rule (discussed above) and asking admins to enforce rules. I did do that. And I asked on your talkpage "What else can I do if he refuses any meaningful collaboration, consensus seeking and discussion?"
Notifications to MH32 on his talkpage I gave many notifications.
Using edit summaries (in addition to talk page discussions) I did use edit summaries (in addition to talk page discussions). See also please don't put elaborate comments in edit summaries; put them on the talk page instead. Edit summaries are not considered reading material (another comment to MH32 from another editor)
Use article talkpage to discuss deleted quotes. I did use article talkpage to discuss deleted quotes.
Moving quotes to talk per Template:Remove After MH32 refused to do it in almost all cases, despite being asked so many times, I moved quotes to talk for him.
Applying Maintain WP:STATUSQUO during discussion I did apply Maintain WP:STATUSQUO during discussion
Asking you what happens if MonsterHunter32 continues censorship and edit-warring. [66] And asking admins that they should enforce the rules per Template:Remove, and that if MH32 continues to refuse to observe Template:Remove, he should be blocked, or the page should be protected. On 22 March I asked you if what happens if MonsterHunter continues with his edit-warring and with the massive censorship of sourced quotes without moving the quotes to talk and without giving full reasoning for the censorship, as told to him is required just before and so many times before by multiple users.
Explaining all edits and restorations on the talkpage (following Maintain WP:STATUSQUO during discussion) Jedi explained all edits on the talkpage. On many articles, MonsterHunter32 did not even once use the talkpage (including at Talk:Muhammad bin Qasim, Talk:Swami Vivekananda, Talk:Historical negationism). In other cases, where he used the talkpage, he did not give full reasoning why he removed the censored quotes. Only in very few cases did he address SOME (not all) of the censored quotes on the talkpage of the article. He used poor excuses like that explaining the deletion of sometimes 10 or more quotes in the same article with 3 word edit summaries is enough. But he was told please don't put elaborate comments in edit summaries; put them on the talk page instead. Edit summaries are not considered reading material (another comment to MH32 from another editor)
Asking the community for opinions. I did ask the community for opinions and comments, see Admin noticeboard and many other places. Jedi: "I am asking the community to comment about the censorship of this user that I have already alerted about here Talk:India#Censorship_of_sourced_quotes_by_User:MonsterHunter32 and at other places, but it didn't help. What should be done about the continued massive removal of sourced quotes by MonsterHunter32 (talk · contribs · deleted contribs · logs · edit filter log · block user · block log) when he refuses to even move the quotes to the talkpage with full reasoning for each quote as was asked by multiple users many many times? [67]
Asking you again what happens if MH32 again refuses to agree on the rule based on Template:Remove. Also asking you to please help ensure that MonsterHunter32 observes it. Also asking to please let me know if you have a different interpretation of any of it.[68]
Notifying MH32 again that the rule must be observerd by him You have been notified of this rule dozens of times and you have chosen to ignore it dozens of times. But if you do not observe this, you will be blocked. Previous time he deleted the notification. This time he didn't delete it, but he ignored it again, as he also ignored your warnings.
Notifying you that MH32 has continued edit-warring, without reverting MH32 again. Jedi said "You said, I agree that prior to removal (by MonsterHunter32), since there is disagreement regarding quotes, they should be moved to the talk page where they could be discussed. Observing this rule above based on Template:Remove is the bare minimum, but it will not solve the tendentious edit warring of MonsterHunter32:"
Notifiying MH32 that he must stop the edit-warring Jedi made again many notifications.[69] [70] [71] But each time MH32 ignored it and just continued.


Jedi3's masive disprutive editing

Here's the truth of Jedi3's disruptive actions. He is back to edit-warring now, see his latest revert: [72]. How can anyone be able to discuss amidst such a disruptive edit-warring?

Here you can see Jedi3's history of disruptive edit-warring in the past. While he keeps claiming censorship, he deliberately omits I've left many of his quotes untouched as well. This table I tagged earlier, but can come in handy. Some of its content is ouitdated. Theis differfence bvetween his comments and abruptly stopping discussion at It says almost always should be moved. Regardless I tried to move and discuss in the past but there was no result.

Also I've given reason for all removals in the edit summary. Also Jedi3 keeps talking about Template:Remove]. but here is actually what it says: "Quotes should never be removed without a comment in the edit summary, and should almost always be moved to the Talk page with a note that they were removed from the article, giving full reasoning."

Regardless of it not mandating every time, I still tried to discussed with him despite not being mandatory every time. But he even abruptly stops discussion in the middle. Notice the time difference between his subsequent comments at Talk:Somnath temple (24 days), Talk: Aurangzeb (6 days), Talk:India (4 days). The last article India wasn't even related to our dispute, yet he started repeating the same claims he made at the noticeboards and other talk pages there.


Article Number of non-notable quotes removed Jedi3 stopped edit-warring? Last edit-warring revert? Jedi3's disruption allowed MonsterHunter32 to move quotes to talk? Template:Remove requires moving? Satisfactory reason given? Jedi3 completed discussion on one quote anywhere?
Aurangzeb No. Still edit-warring as of 29 march. Apart from now, he never discussed at Talk: Aurangzeb for 6 days Moved. The new 10 quotes he claims I "censored", were only removed due to his edit-warring. I've already said he could restore them if they are notable. Another quote he claims I removed is still there. NOT ALWAYS. YES. NO
Somnath temple No. Still edit-warring: [73]. 24 days of difference between subsequent comments at Talk:Somnath temple One moved. The other not, as I was too busy arguing on Talk:Aurangzeb with Jedi3. NOT ALWAYS. YES. Other given too in edit-summary. NO
Talk:Swami Vivekananda No. Still edit-warring as of 29 March. Too busy reverting Jedi3's edit-warring reverts who hasn't stopped. NOT ALWAYS. YES. Reason given in edit summary. NO
Talk:Historical negationism No. Still edit-warring as of 29 March. Too busy reverting Jedi3's edit-warring reverts who hasn't stopped. NOT ALWAYS. YES. Reason given in edit summary. NO
Talk:Slavery in India No. Still edit-warring as of 29 March. Too busy reverting Jedi3's edit-warring reverts who hasn't stopped. NOT ALWAYS. YES. Reason given in edit summary: [74], [75], [76] NO
Talk:Muhammad bin Qasim No. Still edit-warring as of 29 March. Too busy reverting Jedi3's edit-warring reverts who hasn't stopped. NOT ALWAYS. YES. Reason given in edit summary: [77], [78], [79], [80], [81], [82], [83], [84], [85], [86], [87], [88], [89]. Second one as already said is not about Qasim especially. NO
Malabar rebellion No. Still edit-warring as of 29 March. Too busy reverting Jedi3's edit-warring reverts who hasn't stopped. NOT ALWAYS. YES. Reason given in edit-summary: [90] NO

What "cooperation" and censorship this edit-warring user is talking about? He himself doesn't care to cooperate and "censors" and berates when someone takes action against his disruptive edits. He is the most disruptive person I've ever comer across. The list above isn't complete with many other of his acts. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 13:07, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Someone should also tell Jedi3 Wikiquote is not Wikipedia. You should not link a Wikipedia policy like Maintain WP:STATUSQUO during discussion. Only add link of a Wikiquote policy here.

I suggest he also read from the same Wikipedia policy of STATUSQUO says that if your edit is reverted you should discuss instead of reverting - "Similarly, if you make an edit which is good-faith reverted, do not simply reinstate your edit – leave the status quo up, or try an alternative way to make the change that includes feedback from the other editor."

If Jedi3 can disprove what I said about his quotes, then no problem. But he won't stop edit-warring and keeps making bad-faith disruptive edits. I can't do anything anymore about it. His latest edit-warring reverts: [91], [92]. It seems he is hell-bent on getting either of us blocked. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 19:46, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Comments about Jedi3

Jedi3 (again) selectively omits his own criticism This is what other editors have said about Jedi3:

  • Second, I also agree that many of the disputed quotes are not very memorable and might be pushing a POV. Therefore, I believe that both users are at fault in this disagreement - UDScott
  • Please stop the ongoing edit-warring you and another user are currently engaged in. I have no idea who is correct in this dispute that involves several pages. - UDScott
  • I have no doubt that you both have your rather intense and prominent biases for and against various views, attitudes and assertions, and I perceive that there are lapses of both logic and fairness in both of your inclinations. - Kalki
  • * What Jedi3 forgot to mention User:DanielTom said about me at AN, "Jedi3 is obviously concerned that MonsterHunter32 is actively censoring quotes critical of Islam and wikihounding him." How? The only thing most of the articles relate to Islam is that the Muslim rulers were Muslims or some of their actions may be because of Islamic fundamentalism. Most quotes I removed are not about Islam except maybe a few non-notable ones added by Jedi3 which he added into articles of Muslim rulers or a particular religious conflict/riot like Noakhali riots.
He claims it despite me adding quotes about negative acts done by Muslims. At Aurangzeb I myself added a quote talking about temple destruction by Aurangzeb. Even at Noakhali riots I added a quote holding a Muslim responsible. I added them only because they were notable. Also I made few changes to ancient India as well. I however only remove content that is clearly not notable or memorable. The user has similarly made quotes against Christian colonial rulers in India only to further his agenda. Even if his quotes are not memorable he has added them.
  • Even though another user removed his quote saying the article is about Ambedkar, not Elst, though he presumably made a grammar mistake. The reason used Jedi3 to revert? Falsely call the user a vandal.

Wikiquote certainly isn't a place for disruptors like Jedi3 who make false claims. He should be blocked.

Also Jedi3 was again recently blocked for his disruptive and repetitive mass-postings at many talk pages which was removed by the aadmin Kalki, see User talk:Kalki#Brief block of massive posting actions. MonsterHunter32 (talk) 15:53, 20 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That's not vandalism. Accusatory comments, repeatedly in bad faith, are ad hominem WQ:PA. So please be WQ:CIVIL and assume good faith WQ:FAITH. Rupert loup (talk) 06:56, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Categorization

There is a current discussion about categorization in Wikiquote here. Comments are welcome. Rupert loup (talk) 19:59, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You don't write edit summaries when you change the categories, so it's very hard to review your changes. I disagree with most of the category changes I've seen you make recently, but so far I've only seen very few (those that appeared on my watchlist – for example this, this and this; notice Wikipedia uses the category "Critics of Islam" in at least two of these very same articles). Some changes in categorization were questionable and I don't understand the motivation behind them (though I have my suspicions). In less than 2 weeks you've created 700 new categories (many overly-specific, others too broad) and made over 2000 edits to articles just changing their categorization. In general, I think that creating so many overly-specific categories, with just one or two articles each, is not helpful. ~ DanielTom (talk) 18:36, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
DanielTom, to reach consensus about a policy on categories you neeed to comment in the discussion that I pointed. The people that you named are critics of religion in general, not only of Islam. What Wikipedia does is irrelevant here. Rupert loup (talk) 20:05, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
They are critics of religion in general, and of Islam in particular. ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:11, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Listen

 
Recitation of the first six lines of The Tale of Kieu
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How can I make this box appear on the right side? (Any other template that achieves the same effect would do.) Thanks ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:33, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@DanielTom: You can use {{listen|style=float:right|...}}. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:19, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Koavf. The problem is "style=float:right" won't move the box to the right-most side if images are in the way (as in here). ~ DanielTom (talk) 19:41, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hm. It is now but this is probably not the display you want. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:50, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Right. What I wanted was for it to be displayed just like any image on the page... but it doesn't matter much. ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:10, 29 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

A query as to whether some recent formatting alterations are actually functionally superior or not

I have occasionally noticed various extensive alterations to pages by various accounts or IPs for which I know of no clear reason. I confess that for many years now I have not spent much time keeping up on many obscure technical options or updates, and thus I am not aware of any advice or directives that might possibly exist related to the desirability or superiority of replacing such formatting as "[[w:----|]]" with [[wikipedia:----|]] or {{Wikipedia|----}} or of replacing "[[s:----|]]" (or "[[Wikisource:----|]]") with "[[wikisource:----]]" — or normally displayed image names such as "File:Newton rings.jpg" replaced with use of the shift-space character to produce "File:Newton_rings.jpg", but if official indications of such desirability or superiority do not actually exist, I am inclined to slightly object to extensive formatting changes that have been done to various pages, where previously functional renderings have been totally replaced with different ones which are also functional, but which I do not perceive to be either necessary or preferable — as I believe that this has thus far been done without any clearly indicated rationale for such replacements — and for general editors forming links with fully formed words "wikipedia" or "wikisource" is certainly less convenient than such links with a simple "w" or an "s". ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 5 May 2018 (UTC) + tweaks[reply]

They may be useful to newbies who don't know that "w" and "s" stand for "Wikipedia" and "Wikisource", respectively, and who don't know that they can see (when they hover the mouse pointer over the wikilinked word) where it leads to at bottom of the page. The only problem I have with these recent "formatting" changes is that the editors making them often make content changes too all at the same time—that is, changes relating to content and not just to formatting—so the content changes become harder to detect. (For example, it's not immediately obvious that a spam link has been added here.) ~ DanielTom (talk) 23:37, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I had noticed various obscured problems with such pages — but don’t believe I had noticed such additions of spam linkages — at least not recently. Such is another reason to be rather wary of these. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:43, 5 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Spelling out "{{w:}}" shortcuts is not technically desirable or superior in any way, and I do not approve of the changes. Replacing spaces with underscores in wikilinks as if they were hyperlinks is technically incorrect, and I am not sure it can be expected to work consistently. I had also noticed the phenomenon of small content changes masked by large edits full of these superfluous markup changes, which may indeed be a sneaky way to obscure spam and other vandalism.

It appears that some semi-automated process is being used to generate these markup changes. I recommend asking people to stop making the changes, and consider blocking unauthorized bots or other automata that persist. ~ Ningauble (talk) 00:17, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am glad other people have noted the irregularities and problems that such edits can mask — and I agree that we should recommend that people stop making them. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:42, 6 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

AdvancedSearch

From May 8, AdvancedSearch will be available as a beta feature in your wiki. The feature enhances the search page through an advanced parameters form and aims to make existing search options more visible and accessible for everyone. AdvancedSearch is a project by WMDE Technical Wishes. Everyone is invited to test the feature and we hope that it will serve you well in your work!

Birgit Müller (WMDE) 14:45, 7 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Prohibited images and prohibited words

Wikiquote has a list of bad images, would it be possible either to create a similar list for words to be prohibited by technical means, or to vote to unban these images? Why is a particular image of a breast forbidden but cyber bullying is allowed, as are other images of exposed breasts? CensoredScribe (talk) 20:32, 12 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Fixing vandalized page

The Wikiquote page for Max Weber seems to have been vandalized. There is repeated, all-caps text inserted under a few of the individual titles. I tried to remove the text but can't seem to find it when I go into the Edit page. I'm just mentioning this here for someone else who might know more about how the site works.

The full caps text does not appear to be vandalism. It is in fact, standard practice on Wikiquote. This practice has been the subject of heated debates, as I, along with others, feel that it is more confusing than helpful. J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 19:45, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What can the Wikidata community do to make it easier for Wikimedia contributors to understand Wikidata?

 

Dear all

Over the past year or so I've been working quite a lot on Wikidata documentation and have been thinking more about the needs of different kinds of user. I feel that currently Wikidata can be difficult to understand (what it does, how to contribute, what issues there are and what is being done to address them etc) even for experienced Wikimedia project contributors. To help address this I've started an RFC to try and collate this information together. It would be really helpful if you could share your thoughts, especially if you find Wikidata hard to understand or confusing, you can just share your thoughts on the talk page and we will synthesize them into the main document.

Wikidata:Requests for comment/Improving Wikidata documentation for different types of user

Thanks very much

John Cummings (talk) 12:54, 18 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

What's wrong with the about section for the character and comic book Batman?

Considering the creator Bill Finger didn't even get his name on the title I'm confused how additions like these are PR or "chatter" and why interviews with creators are seen as inherently less valuable than critics, when both can have interesting things to say about a work, revealing more about it. I don't want to make a bunch of about sections no one wants, so if additions like these are a problem I'd like to know from more than a single administrator to get a view on the consensus. CensoredScribe (talk) 23:14, 20 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Political silliness

Somebody, who I am sure was acting solely from benevolent incompetence rather than festering malevolent political partisanship, packed the pages for "Republican Party (United States)" and "Democratic Party (United States)" with a great many execrably-sourced quotes about how wonderful the Republican Party is and how terrible the Democratic Party is.

I have done this person a favor by removing these quotes (sourced to — among others — letters to the editor, random blog posts, and Amazon reviews of self-published books).

However, the images that illustrate those pages, and that have pertinent quotes as their captions? Through an astounding coincidence, all of the ones on the "Republican Party" page are pro-Republican, and almost all of the ones on the "Democratic Party" page are anti-Democrat. Clearly, this needs to be fixed; it is as unacceptable as the converse would be.

I see four possible solutions:

  1. each page should only have illustrations captioned positively
  2. each page should only have illustrations captioned negatively
  3. each page should alternate between images with positive captions and images with negative captions
  4. neither page should have any illustrations at all.

Thoughts? DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 20:44, 22 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, it's been a month; no one has commented, either here or on the talk pages of the pages in question. I thereby take it upon myself to replace the illustrated quotes. Each page will alternate 1:1 between positive illustrated quotes and negative illustrated quotes; positive illustrated quotes will be first. There will be no quoting of official party platforms. DragonflySixtyseven (talk) 18:36, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I am looking for a quote about reciprocity

It goes something on the line like this, but with archaic language: A small service is meet by the same treatment, a middle service is meet by gratitude, and a great service is meet by ingratitude. Spannerjam (talk) 10:37, 24 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiquote:Notability: Expanding the works section stub.

I was wondering what the proper procedure would be for expanding the placeholding stub for the works section of Wikiquote:Notability, I've been told by at least one editor that no less than 10 sources making use of a direct quote are needed to establish notability, unless, like this page states, the quote is displayed on a wikipedia page, most of which don't appear to actually be quoted by more than one source, if that. That instruction also contradicts the instructions given on this page, "However, for theme articles in particular, quotations from notable people or notable publications that discuss the theme can be especially appropriate regardless of the frequency of the material having been quoted elsewhere, especially obscure or forgotten quotations that speak directly to the theme - this is one way Wikiquote is unique as compared to conventional compendia." Notably, notability is only categorized as an essay, not a guideline; what needs to happen to change that classification? Would I be correct in assuming a vote is needed? CensoredScribe (talk) 19:19, 29 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Creating templates.

How do you create templates? There are a lot of them on Wikipedia that would be helpful to have on Wikiquote. Is this restricted to sysops? J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 17:40, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Request for adminship

Please weigh in and share your support. Thanks.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Requests_for_adminship#Just_A_Regular_New_Yorker_(talk_%C2%B7_contributions)

J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 20:30, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Important: No editing between 06:00 and 06:30 UTC on 13 June

This is just to tell you that your wiki will be read-only between 06:00 UTC and 06:30 UTC on 13 June. This means that everyone will be able to read it, but you can’t edit. This is because of a server problem that needs to be fixed. You can see the list of affected wikis on Phabricator.

If you have any questions, feel free to write on my talk page on Meta. /Johan (WMF) (talk) 12:36, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

RfC: Plans to graduate the New Filters on Watchlist out of beta

Collaboration team is announcing plans to graduate the New Filters for Edit Review out of beta on Watchlist by late June or early July. After launch, this suite of improved edit-search tools will be standard on all wikis. Individuals who prefer the existing Watchlist interface will be able to opt out by means of a new preference.

The New Filters introduce an easier yet more powerful user interface to Watchlist as well as a whole list of filters and other tools that make reviewing edits more efficient, including live page updating, user-defined highlighting,the ability to create special-purpose filter sets and save them for re-use and (on wikis with ORES enabled) predictive filters powered by machine learning. If you’re not familiar with the New Filters, please give them a try on Watchlist by activating the New Filters beta feature. In particular, it would be very helpful if you can test the new functionality with your local gadgets and configurations. The documentation pages provide guidance on how to use the many new tools you’ll discover.

Over 70,000 people have activated the New Filters beta, which has been in testing on Watchlist for more than eight months. We feel confident that the features are stable and effective, but if you have thoughts about these tools or the beta graduation, please let us know on the project talk page. In particular, tell us if you know of a special incompatibility or other issue that makes the New Filters problematic on your wiki. We’ll examine the blocker and may delay release on your wiki until the issue can be addressed. - -Kaartic (talk) 16:40, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Update on page issues on mobile web

Update on page issues on mobile web

Please help translate to your language Hi everyone. The Readers web team has recently begun working on exposing issue templates on the mobile website. Currently, details about issues with page content are generally hidden on the mobile website. This leaves readers unaware of the reliability of the pages they are reading. The goal of this project is to improve awareness of particular issues within an article on the mobile web. We will do this by changing the visual styling of page issues.

So far, we have drafted a proposal on the design and implementation of the project. We were also able to run user testing on the proposed designs. The tests so far have positive results. Here is a quick summary of what we learned:

  • The new treatment increases awareness of page issues among participants. This is true particularly when they are in a more evaluative/critical mode.
  • Page issues make sense to readers and they understand how they work
  • Readers care about page issues and consider them important
  • Readers had overwhelmingly positive sentiments towards Wikipedia associated with learning about page issues

Our next step would be to start implementing these changes. We wanted to reach out to you for any concerns, thoughts, and suggestions you might have before beginning development. Please visit the project page where we have more information and mockups of how this may look. Please leave feedback on the talk page.

CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 20:58, 12 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikiquote can become much more accessible for searchers - just by a few little changes

There exist an iron law for every individual web-page on the internet: describe your content literally and complete - to make yourself accessible as possible for searchers. If you don't, you create barriers for searchers! Wikiquote can become much more accessible than now by describing its content more literally and accurate. In a year, I believe sincerely, we can have more than a double amount of searchers - just by a few small changes in Titles and Heads.

In particular the search-engines demand this accurate and literally. They want to be able to check every webpage on cheating titles and fake-content - and they are right in that! Also the searching people need it, because they make their search-words to find a good match, in our case: quotes This description of the content must be written in every visible = readable webpage, but also in its invisible page behind the visible one: the html-page. This is the area where the search-engines search and verify for their ranking of each webpage.

In both areas Wikiquote can do much better then now. I estimate that Wikiquote can have circa a double amount of visitors in the 12 months. And maybe more in the years following. I shall give my arguments and proofs for that. The biggest proofs are of course the other quotes-websites on the internet who do better in this. Mostly they are commercial and offer a bad quality of quotes, but well-done descriptions of their content - on every page. So they win in the rankings of the search-engines. And that makes them much more accessible than Wikiquote for quote-searchers. It is a pity. I estimate that the total of individual visits in 2017 for Wikiquote was c. 25-30 million. The first 10 million is confirmed by the Wikiquote-statistics for the visits of the Mainpage: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Main_Page. But all the other individual webpages also attracted their direct visitors, and that amount is a guess of me: 15 million. Moreover, are in that amount the visitors coming via Wikipedia, of course!

First I want to give 3 practical proposals for improving Wikiquote regarding this question of more accesibility . These changes are rather small and rather easily to be done. They can also be done independent from each other. Then I give a much more detailed explanation and my shortresearch about differences in rankings of quote-websites by the search-engines. I give also my little proof for improvement in a better access; it took place since March 2018 for the Picasso-page on Wikiquote.

3 Practical proposals for changes in Wikiquote:

1. a. Change in the TEMPLATE for making the TITLE in People-pages more literally in words. Now the general TITLE of every web-page is only meant for 'Quotes'. Change this title-content into: 'Quotes of Beethoven' / 'Quotes of Albert Einstein', etc.. Now the TITLE makes a direct connection between 'Quotes' and the Person … That is how most visitors will search for their quotes, isn't it? And how the search-engines value a search 1. b. With templates of other pages on Wikiquote I have no experience – I hope other people have suggestions.

2. Change in the HEAD – the Head is located at the top of every webpage on Wikiquote. Now there is only given room there for the name of the Person. Makes it possible that the HEAD says: 'Quotes of Pablo Picasso'. So this valuable combination between 'Quotes' and name-Person enters in the HEAD of each webpage. Moreover the HEAD becomes now more accurate in fact; because that is the content of the page! The structure of the Wikiquote-website needs to be changed for that, I guess. So that the first two words 'Quotes of..' are already built-in as standard-content. And that with every new page the Person-name becomes added to this pre-edited 'Quotes of..'.

3. Change the (invisible) HTML-version of each page. This is most important for the search-engines, because they read there a lot first, to be able to determine their ranking! I take as example for my suggestions here the existing HTML Wikiquote-webpage of the Quotes of Picasso view-source:https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso

3. a. Change in the HEAD of each invisible HTML-webpage my suggestions: <!DOCTYPE html> <head> <title>Quotes of Albert Einstein – Wikiquote</title> <meta name="description" content="Quotes of Albert Einstein and About Albert Einstein, on Wikiquote.">…. </head>

3. b. Change in the BODY of each invisible HTML-webpage my suggestions: <body class = In h1: id="firstHeading" class="firstHeading" lang="en">Quotes of Albert Einstein . In h2: Quotes of Albert Einstein ……</body>

more detailed argumentation for the proposed changes and my little research about rankings of Wikiquote-pages in the search-engines now

1. Wikiquote & Wikipedia compared, in relation to searching

I always thought that Wikiquote worked more or less the same as Wikipedia, in searching. Of course I realized that Wikiquote is more specified and much smaller. Last years however it became clear to me that almost everybody in the world knows Wikipedia bot not many people know Wikiquote. That makes searching and finding on-line very different. When I asked around me last year, not so many people know Wikiquote, many never heard of the name: 'uh… oh that is something of Wikipdia, perhaps..?' Much fewer people used it in fact as their tool for searcing quotes. The same was with students or pupils when I asked them. A pity really! Because they can use the sourced quotes very well.

Now I start to understand that searching online is very different with Wikipedia than with Wikiquote! You cannot even compare them, with respect to searching and finding! This learned me a lot abouty the accessibility worldwide of Wikiquote which I myself appreciate so much a a valuable source for people wordwide. To make clear what I learned, I give an example - to illustrate how the two Wiki’s operate in a completely different way online!

  • about Wikipedia

When people want to know more about Kennedy, most of them go directly to Wikipedia and search IN! Wikipedia for Kennedy or J. Kennedy. Very quickly they will meet there the link for John F. Kennedy and bingo.. They find the webpage in a very short and direct way and start reading about Kennedy! So Wikpedia is their search-engine and Wikipedia gives them the searched content.

  • about Wikiquote

With Wikiquote it goes completely different. Not so many people go directly to Wikiquote for finding quotes of Kennedy because most people don’t know Wikiquote at all! So, they go to a search-engine: Google, or Bing, or the new Microsoft Edge… Google.com, did last year 72 % of all searches worldwide and 90 % of all tablet / smartphone-searches. So I continue this with Google. In the search-window of Google most people will search for quotes with - at least - two words. In my example with 'Quotes' and 'Kennedy' for sure. They can make variations of course like 'quotes of Kennedy' or 'quotes' 'Kennedy' - maybe 'quotes by Kennedy' or quotes of J.F. Kennedy… But almost everybody will use in their search the two words: 'Quotes' & 'Kennedy'. Then the question arises: How well can the webpages of Wikiquote handle with these two words, including their combination?? And, how easily can they create a match between searching and finding, or creates it barriers for the searcher?

There is no problem if Wikiquote can deal with the two words: 'Quotes' + 'Person' The first problem however is: most Wikiquote-webpages don’t describe their content in two words, but only in one word! The HEAD of each webpage is now only intended for the Name of the Person. And the TITLE under the Head is only used now for the word 'Quotes'. So the two search-words, used by most searchers in Google.com are placed on different and so divided locations. They don’t appear together now, as a combination in words. So the search-engines can’t recognize this combination in the HEAD and in the TITLE of every webpage on Wikiquote. That is really a pity!

This fact of division does not only apply to the visible webpages of Wikiquote, but also to the invisible HTML-version of each webpage. (you can see the html-version when you click with the right on a selected web-page – and then you go to the ‘Source’). This fact is most important, because the HTML-version of each web-page is the place where search-engines operate and search, to value and conclude later the ranking of the webpage in question.

  • Many Quote-websites online

There is a lot of well-organized competition online in the field of quote-websites. As best results of searching for 'Quotes of a Person' in the rankings on Google.com appear today the quote-websites Brainyquote.com and Goodreads.com. Both websites are purely commercial wit ànd very smart. Their content they find on Wikiquote largely! In most quote-searches these two appear at the top in Google - in the first three rankings of the first link-page. Main reason for that: they can handle the two search-words Quotes & the Person very well, including their combination!!


My little Research of 10 searches for quotes in Google.com

I did a short research on Google.com, with 10 searches, using the two words 'Quotes' & 'Name of a Person'. The persons I choose from different times and different fields of activity. Here are the results for the ranking of Wikiquote in Google, on 20 June 2018:

  • Kennedy + quotes: ranking nr. 15 - bottom of 2nd link-page of Google - Bad result!
  • Stalin + quotes: ranking nr. 2 - above, at first link-page! - Good!
  • Einstein + quotes: ranking nr. 18 - bottom of second link-page - Bad!
  • Faulkner + quotes: ranking nr. 3 - above, at first link-page - Good!
  • Beethoven + quotes: ranking nr. 5 - at the middle of first link-page - rather Good!
  • Sartre + quotes: ranking nr. 4 - above, at the first link-page - Good!
  • Bernstein + quotes: ranking nr. 9 - at bottom of first link-page - Not so good!
  • Janis Joplin + quotes: ranking nr. 10 - at the bottom of first link-page - Not so good!
  • Walt Whitman + quotes nr. 6 - at the middle of first link-page - Rather Good!
  • Bob Dylan + quotes: nr. nd - third link-page - Very bad!

There are some very comprehensive webpages with very bad results, in particular the webpages of Einstein, Kennedy and Bob Dylan. A lot of work is done; they deserve better ranking, I believe! The results for Wikiquote can become much better, and rather easily! I estimate that they can double, in the coming next year. I did already some experiments with the web-page Quotes of Picasso on Wikiquote – which is the ground of my estimation.


My small proof: little change in the web-page on Wikiquote: 'Quotes of Picasso' - and the results of this change

On 23 March 2018, I changed the title of the webpage of Picasso on Wikiquote. The old title was 'Quotes'. I changed this title into 'Quotes of Picasso' (you can see it in the history of the page). It is a pity I couldn't change the Head! So only this little change in the title generated the results I give you here!

From the start of April 2018 the amount of visitors was growing; the Wikiquote-statistics of this web-page showed a considerable monthly increase of visitors up to and including May 2018. February: 2279 visitors March: 2661 visitors April: 3029 visitors May: 3644 visitors till 20 June: c. 2200

That means a grow of c. 1/3 of visitors in a few months time - just because of changing a few words in the title only. What will happen when also the Head of the web-page will change – and the head in the invisible html-page?? Now I only changed the title from Quotes into Quotes of Picasso.

On the long term my proposals can make Wikiquote useful and popular, so that more people shall start to search for quotes in Wikiquote directly Less wil search consequently via Google or the other search-engines. Then Wikiquote itself will become more a search-engine for the confined area of quotes online. Like Wikipedia now already is operating – it is used by many visitors as a search-engine itself! Without Google, without Bing… They go directly to Wikipedia and start searching there in Wikipedia!

Wikiquote is the only large website worldwide with sourced and reliable quotes! It writes in this way in a lively and convincing way an important part of human history. I am very glad to attribute, and I do it for years already in my area of artist-quotes. It is more motivating for me when Wikiquote becomes an accesible, useful and growing source of quotes for many people over the world. the world. User:FotoDutchFotoDutch (talk) 20:09, 21 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@FotoDutch:, I have great admiration for all your efforts over the years to present quotes by artists and quotes about art and artists online (on your own websites and here on Wikiquote), and I am grateful that you (more or less) are transferring those quotes from your own websites to Wikiquote. Yet, there have been discussion before that in the process you are applying your own preferences (such as using double white lines, bolding all text, (and now) using alternative headers, subtitles and descriptions of sources), and with all your efforts creating some significant deviation to the standard lay out here on Wikiquote, see for example the current Cubism lemma.
Now I have no doubt that you are right about the search engine optimization by using those alternative headers, subtitles and descriptions of sources. My problem is those few little changes in the current Cubism lemma for example results in the mentioning of the word quote 63 times, were the standard uses none... Now this can be confusing, it can be distracting, and the experienced user can filter it out. I think however that this should be avoided to begin with. Our first priority should be the presentation of quotes in the most effective and efficient way on the page itself, with all the verbal and non-verbal (lay-out) tools we have. -- Mdd (talk) 12:57, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hallo Mdd, My proposals for more accessibility concerning Wikiquote are meant for all the web-pages on Wikiquote, c. 50.000, I guess!. If you really think my proposals are right about the search engine optimization by using more complete headers, subtitles and descriptions of sources, than please support it. Please, don't mix these proposals with more specified critic on my individual attributions on Wikiquote. These are two different discussions. Moreover, thanks for your compliments!FotoDutch (talk) 09:59, 26 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

How can I add new author quotes

Hi, I am very new here and I've seen that in here an author named Salman Aziz from Bangladesh, his valuable quotes are not included here. He is an artist, author, and activist. His quotes are available on IMDb, Goodreads and various sources. How to add his quotes in here? Or can anyone do it? Please help. You can find him and his works on the internet.-—This unsigned comment is by S Kahn (talk • contribs) .

I suggest you look at the links at Help:Contents, specifically Wikiquote:How to edit a page. Also, in the future, please remember to sign all posts. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 16:07, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Postponement of the deployment of the New Filters on Watchlist

There was a recent announcement about the plans to graduate the New Filters for Edit Review out of beta for this Wiki. It stated that the deployment would happen by late June or early July. Since that announcement, we received feedback about a performance issue related to the change which is being actively worked upon. As a consequence, the deployment is postponed until further notice. Sorry for the inconvenience caused, if any.

Please let us know of any other issues or special incompatibility that you may face so that we could make sure they are solved before the feature gets deployed. Thanks, Kaartic (talk) 15:15, 27 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Category introductions

I wanted to raise this issue (already under discussion at Category talk:Democratic Party (United States) politicians. I do not see the harm (in fact I see value instead) in having a short introduction to some Category pages - others disagree. What is the community's feelings on this? While I agree that it is not always necessary, I find that in some cases (e.g. Category:Film noir, Category:Dystopian films) it is quite helpful to the user to better understand the category, without having to leave our site for such clarification. What do others think? ~ UDScott (talk) 13:18, 29 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I think a good idea. Then visitors know directly they are on a place to read the things they are looking for, or not. Wikipedia is then useful for writing a short Introduction for the Category. Three lines or so.FotoDutch (talk) 21:57, 2 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Re-scheduled deployment of the New Filters on Watchlist

There was a recent announcement about the plans to graduate the New Filters for Edit Review out of beta for this Wiki. The deployment was stalled to fix the performance issue related to the change. The performance of the new interface has been improved significantly as an outcome of the work by the developers [93]. So, the deployment has been re-scheduled. The deployment is scheduled for this wiki on July 9th 2018, 18:00-19:00 UTC.

Please let us know of any other issues or special incompatibility that you may face so that we could make sure they are solved before the feature gets deployed. -- Kaartic (talk) 20:00, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Global preferences are available

Global preferences are now available, you can set them by visiting your new global preferences page. Visit mediawiki.org for information on how to use them and leave feedback. -- Keegan (WMF) (talk)

19:19, 10 July 2018 (UTC)

Zhu Ming (thinker) and administrator review

The person behind the page Zhu Ming (thinker) is very insistent that their page belongs on wikiquote. They have created their pages at multiple wikis, and you can see some examples at m:User:COIBot/XWiki/weixin765.com. The pages have been deleted at these otherwikis, and some multiple times. I have marked the page for deletion, or at least administrator review, and on each occasion the delete template has been removed. At Wikipedia, the existing article has been overwritten, turned into redirects, and at this stage the article person has not been deemed notable. I ask that local admins please review the page. If you decide to delete, please note that English Wikisource has had to locally utilise mediawiki:titleblacklist to stop the additions. sDrewth 11:36, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I believe you are correct regarding this page and I have nominated it for deletion. ~ UDScott (talk) 12:07, 11 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
@UDScott: the spammer keeps creating the page.
Warning:Now the quotation Zhu Ming（thinker） appeared,and User:Wirterss makes it.Please delete this quotation and give this user warning.(Maybe I don't convey what I mean exactly.)~ Joe young yu (talk) 14:40, 28 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Zhu Ming（thinker） is created by User:124.76.252.99 again.User:Wirterss may make this ID to write the article.Therefore,please block this user and make sure that quotes of Zhu Ming are never created.~ Joe young yu (talk) 13:40, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Consultation on the creation of a separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Hi all,

I'm preparing a change in who can edit sitewide CSS/JS pages. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which are executed in the browser of all readers and editors.) Currently all administrators are able to edit these pages, which poses a serious and unnecessary security risk. Soon, a dedicated, smaller user group will take over this task. Your community will be able to decide who belongs in this group, so this should mean very little change for you. You can find out more and provide feedback at the consultation page on Meta. If you are involved in maintaining CSS/JS code, or policymaking around adminship requests, please give it a look!

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 08:45, 12 July 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[reply]

Does WikiQuote have REVDEL?

Hi! Hijiri88 here. (I felt introductions to be in order, since the last time I showed up on an English Wikipedia sister project -- on Japanese Wikipedia four years ago -- and started blanking content, I was initially mistaken for a troll or vandal. I'm not; I'm an established and respected contributor to English Wikipedia, and have some history of contributions to Commons, English Wiktionary, and Japanese and French Wikipedias.[94])

This page was created today by a single-purpose with the clear intention of defaming the subject of this page which I anticipate being deleted. I am not sure if the former page has any merit with the defamatory content removed, but on English Wikipedia if I encountered something like that I would ask an admin to remove it from the public logs -- can I do that here?

Also, any advice regarding how WikiQuote deals with accounts like Thebow (talk · contributions) would be appreciated.

Hijiri88 (talk) 12:51, 24 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure why you removed these quotes. Are you disputing that they were said by the people? If so you could move them to a 'disputed' section. If you have proof something is a joke, you could add a quote from the person explaining that it is a joke -thebow

Don't cite Breitbart.com. Hijiri88 (talk) 21:27, 24 July 2018
Thebow (talk · contributions) Both Robert Mueller and Mark Harmon contain problematically long quotes. You can take quotes from sources obviously, but you cannot copy verbatim very large portions of other works, because it is liable to constitute a copyright violation. You need to trim those down, or trim them out to just a few shorter quotes.
The bottom quote here is not appropriate at all. Please note that the English Wikipedia editing policy page is an accepted standard on Wikiquote. This includes using an abundance of caution when dealing with topics involving living persons. Breitbart is certainly not an acceptable source for such a salacious quote, and I struggle to imagine where such a salacious quote would ever be appropriate regardless of the source. GMGtalk 18:19, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Quote investigation help needed

On the Chinese proverb page there is this proverb: When the wind of change blows some build shelters, while others build windmills. It seems to never have been an authentic native proverb. The same could be said for the purportedly Japanese proverb "Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare". It would be swell if one of Wikiquote investigators could find the origin of these sayings, and could find out when they were first passed of as Chinese respective Japanese proverbs. Spannerjam (talk) 21:32, 27 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

New user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS

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Hi all!

To improve the security of our readers and editors, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed. (These are pages like MediaWiki:Common.css and MediaWiki:Vector.js which contain code that is executed in the browsers of users of the site.) A new user group, interface-admin, has been created. Starting four weeks from now, only members of this group will be able edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage).

You can learn more about the motivation behind the change here.

Please add users who need to edit CSS/JS to the new group (this can be done the same way new administrators are added, by stewards or local bureaucrats). This is a dangerous permission; a malicious user or a hacker taking over the account of a careless interface-admin can abuse it in far worse ways than admin permissions could be abused. Please only assign it to users who need it, who are trusted by the community, and who follow common basic password and computer security practices (use strong passwords, do not reuse passwords, use two-factor authentication if possible, do not install software of questionable origin on your machine, use antivirus software if that's a standard thing in your environment).

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 13:08, 30 July 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[reply]

Issue about a persumed propaganda TV series

Hello, everyone! I want to add a series of page about Xiang Cun Jing Cha Gu Shi (乡村警察故事, lit. Story of Villiage Polices), a special programe of CCTV-1 programe Legal Report (今日说法) which contains many persumed propaganda contents and it's still brocasted. (Although official page says that it only update at certain holidays) I am concerned about the copyright issue. Could someone introduce copyright of such offical Tv series. Mariogoods (talk) 08:36, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Zhu Ming

Since it is re-created and re-deleted repeatedly, maybe a filter could be done in order to prevent the creation of articles about "Zhu Ming" ("Zhu Ming （Zhu Zhe）", "Zhu Ming （Chinese philosopher）", "Zhu Ming（philosopher）", "Zhu Ming（thinker）", ecc.). --Superchilum (talk) 08:03, 2 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also "Ming Zhu（thinker）". --Superchilum (talk) 13:37, 4 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Also "Zhu Min". --Superchilum (talk) 09:36, 10 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Done by another admin. Thanks, User:Superchilum. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:35, 11 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Pictures unrelated to quotes

Why are there so many pictures that seem to have little to nothing to do with the quotes? It's truly bizarre, some of the images on pages like Neil Postman. There's some sort of connection in most cases, but the images don't really contribute to the page. They don't make it easier to find quotes, they don't shed light on what the quote is referring to (on the contrary, they are often misleading), and they don't really make any quotes more prominent because the captions are so small. So what is the point? What are the pictures for? Andrew Sheedy (talk) 20:46, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Those pictures do not belong here. See the WQ:IMAGE policy. What they were added for can be hard to say. Removing them may provoke some resistance. ~ Ningauble (talk) 23:37, 16 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
The third point of illustrating topics, unlike the first two, leaves some room for interpretation, "Pages on abstract concepts for which there are images or symbols closely associated with that concept such as Love, Judaism, and Law, should include at least one such closely associated image or symbol." Organizations like religions and corporations have specific symbols is use, so it's really the abstract concepts that are in question I think. We don't even have a page for rockets or missiles, and barely any quotes on Wikiquote actually mention those words, and yet images of them are numerous on the page for war. It would make just as much sense, if not more, to have images of a bunch of military leaders who waged wars instead, particularly when they are the source of the quote. However, I think a lot of Wikiquote readers would get tired of looking at portraits all the time, and many authors outside of religion and politics only have a small number of artistic depictions of them, particularly those from before photography, those whom were not popular during their lifetimes, or those who chose not to commission someone to paint them. To borrow a term from comic books, it would be a bunch of talking heads.
I'm guessing based on traditions in western religious art that the many images of the sky on the page for love seem to be relying on the idea of a monotheistic god being equated with both the sky and with love, where as the many localized forms of the ancient Greek religion typically associated Aphrodite the goddess of love with sea foam, or with the arrows of Cupid, so it's unlikely they would have had that connotation. This is contrary to what point four of relevance states, "Images that could connote a specific cultural meaning that differs from that of either the page or the specified quote should not be used." Point 1 of relevance might as well not even be listed because everything it says is effectively repeated in the second point but with greater clarification; compare "Images should directly support or embody the theme of the provided quotes", with "The connection between the images used and the subject matter of the page as a whole, and individual quotes on it, should be obvious and specific. The relevance should not be so ambiguous or abstract that it could refer to anything or nothing". Abstract art, much like an ink blot, can be interpreted many different ways, compared to say a landscape, a portrait, a still life or a historical painting where the subject matter tends to be less contested, the UN security council has Picasso's Guernica on display because it's pretty obviously about the town of Guernica being effected by war, embodying that concept well enough for world leaders to make use of it. An image also need not necessarily reflect the particular quote it is paired with, merely the page, though I think it's more effective when it represents the quote as well. I think point three of relevance is really the most important to because it's the one that runs afoul of soap boxing, "Images are used to illustrate the subject of a page or a quote, not to express an opinion, interpretation, or commentary by, e.g., introducing metaphors, analogies, comparisons, or relationships that are not explicit in the captioning quotation, or by highlighting arbitrary, literal meanings of words used in a figurative sense." For example, Kalki adds a lot of images associated with Donald Trump to the quote of the day for themes, which many other users have complained about.
Not to change topics, but there's actually quite a few rules/guidelines already in place here that should really be enforced in actuality more often, like the ones regarding civility; because right now it kind of just seems like open season for cyber bullying as long as you've made a certain number of useful edits. CensoredScribe (talk) 05:08, 18 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

General policy and guideline enforcement

@CensoredScribe: If you have more feedback to give on this, it would be appreciated. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:56, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for asking me to provide further commentary. I'm not sure whether I should be adding this to the talk page for Wikiquote:Policies and guidelines, but until further notice I will post here.

I was once told that editing on wikiquote requires thick skin, which is true, however what wasn’t mentioned, but what was implied when I suggested another editor had deteriorated eyeballs that made them incapable of reading correctly was that you also can’t have such a sharp “wit” that everyone else bleeds to death upon making any verbal contact with you, metaphorically speaking, or in the unfortunate and hopefully as of yet unprecedented case of another editor’s suicide from cyberbullying, in actuality. If someone’s suicide note mentions Wikiquote, that would be very very bad for publicity, regardless of any actual legal responsibility, which I will not comment upon, as offering legal advice, like medical (which includes psychological), is clearly against Wikipedia’s rules, though I have no idea which of Wikipedias rules actually are in effect on Wikiquote. On RationalWiki doxing someone is forbidden and will result in a permanent ban, however I see nothing in the rules or suggested guidelines here that actually bans doxing. Hypothetically if someone had access to another user’s actual medical records, address, phone number, e-mails, combat record, and or their school schedule, I don’t think they would be blocked for any amount of time unless an administrator felt like enforcing an unwritten rule which like all unwritten rules is impossible to look up beforehand, creating an atmosphere of no transparency.

I saw little difference between accusing DanielTom of "defects of vision" and being accused of having the reading comprehension of a five year old, however one of us was temporarily banned for their bullying and the other was not, which makes no sense, unless for some reason bullying someone for mental disorders is acceptable but other medical disorders is not, in which case I presume we are allowed to accuse each other of being schizophrenic, autistic or psychopathic. From what I’ve gathered of Pizzagate and the Clinton body count conspiracy theory, it is apparently now perfectly legal to accuse other people of running a secret ring of pedophilia, and or ordering assassinations, which makes me wonder whether we can emulate this apparently acceptable behavior and simply accuse editors we don’t like of the most pornographically horrifying acts we can imagine in attempt to have them banned, doxed or worse by mentally unstable internet vigilantes who honestly believe our grade A (word that rhymes with “sharp wit”). It makes no sense why accusing someone of having a reading disorder is acceptable, but saying they are going blind isn’t. Right now Wikiquote is making less of an effort to stop cyber bullying than Melania Trump is doing, which is a criticism I hope puts things more in perspective for Kalki, who, were I to use an inappropriate colloquialism, given what I was blocked for, turned a blind eye to DanielTom’s behavior. My sincerest apologies to any editors with vision difficulties, both for my initial comment to DanielTom and the use of a colloquialism that is still in common use, even by major news agencies, suggesting it is politically correct to use.

Free speech has limits, like yelling fire in a crowded theater, or threatening the president, even in fiction via the police like Aaron McGruder learned from his editor when he had to change “bring nightsticks’ to “bring really tight handcuffs”; on one of the many occasions Huey Freeman called up the FBI to report there was a terrorist in the whitehouse. I think accusing people of felonies is best left to the police, not David Cavanaugh, and attempting to diagnose reading disorders should be left to a child’s parents and teachers, to be official confirmed by qualified psychologists. This is a roundabout way of calling someone mentally retarded without having the courage to actually say what you mean, like calling someone a google, a skype, a yahoo, a bing or a skittle instead of the words they actually stand for, so that you don’t get banned but still get to feel like a racist punk badass while taking cover behind technicalities in the rules and loopholes in an evolving language filter. What bravery in the name of hate.

If you are going to let DanielTom play doctor, than get ready for someone going by the username Dr. Black Jack and start diagnosing cancer and suggesting treatments for it via verbal descriptions on this wiki, because that’s the Pandora’s box of reckless stupidity and blatant disregard for the law that is being opened by allowing this kind of behavior to fly and assuming that reading disorders aren’t a medical disorder and that medical disorders aren’t quite clearly forbidden on Wikipedia to offer advice on. The only other alternative is that DanielTom is suggesting English isn’t my first language, which would be like me telling a non native English speaker to go back to ESL, which is an excellent way of implying someone shouldn’t be in the country they are in, without directly saying something overly anti-immigrant. Notably however, DanielTom did not specify it was just my English reading abilities but my reading abilities in general that were in question, so this does not seem likely.

I strongly suggest for both our sakes and those of every bullied editor yet to come that you expressly forbid me from guessing personal details about Daniel Tom’s medical record and prevent others from doing the same. Not that I would ever admit to or lie about having been diagnosed with a reading disorder or provide the evidence needed to refute that claim by blurting out what my actual education level is, making it that much easier to dox me and put an end to my unorthodox views; or that DanielTom would ever admit to me being able to accurately guess personal details about them either, as that would go against the narrative of me being an incompetent with the reading comprehension of a five year old that they have decided to story tell. It would be much more impressive if I was five and writing all of this, but alas I’m closer to Aaron McGruder’s age than Huey Freeman’s, but like Huey I’m ready to go toe to toe with DanielTom or any other bully who thinks they can take their own medicine if that’s honestly the example you want set here today. I’m thankful Kalki blocked me from playing amateur optometrist and expressing hateful sentiments that suggested ableism and ageism, because if I'd been allowed to get away with what DanielTom has been getting away with, I could have easily become an even bigger bully, seeing as my criticisms are longer than a paragraph, and become like a certain scathing German art critic known to play amateur optometrist in the name of defending high culture.

To end on a more pleasant note and to quote Gandalf, "Do not tempt me". CensoredScribe (talk) 18:13, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Need I remind you that you have added hundreds, if not thousands, of off-topic "quotes" to hundreds of theme pages? You have admitted to this pernicious behavior and apologized for it. And you have been blocked for it. At that time, when I was dealing with your massive and relentless vandalism efforts, I said that you must have the reading comprehension of a five-year-old (at best) to add so much terrible and unrelated material to so many different theme pages – either that, or you were being a deliberate vandal. I still don't know which is more likely. I haven't looked at your recent "contributions" (because I have already suffered enough cleaning up after you, quite frankly), but judging by this sample you are still doing a lot of damage to Wikiquote. Here you have apparently added a quote by a fellow Wikiquote user who is not notable. Almost every article edit you make is problematic. ~ DanielTom (talk) 20:03, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
If it's that obvious I should be banned, than what are you waiting for? Have me banned by canvassing off wiki where no one can see your machinations, and call upon your usual group of the half dozen Wikiquote users willing to vote however you instruct them. STOP TALKING ABOUT IT AND DO IT! It's not like six people are willing to defend me anyways, you'll obviously get your way, so what's stopping you? Afraid you might fail and it will blemish your perfection? CensoredScribe (talk) 22:30, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
What are you on about? Do you have proof to back up your ridiculous accusations? I have never canvassed, either on or off wiki. I have never instructed anyone on how to vote. I do think you should be blocked, but I have always said that openly. ~ DanielTom (talk) 22:38, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Do you have any proof I have the reading comprehension of a five year old, "Dr." Daniel Tom, or is that just your personal opinion? Or are you just telling another of your snarky stories hoping people will take you seriously in a subject outside of your actual academic field? WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR, GO TO ANI AND HAVE ME BANNED!!! DO IT!!! Or do I have to start the topic to have me banned for you, because you are too afraid, "lazy" or "incompetent" to do it yourself? CensoredScribe (talk) 00:07, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Your hundreds of edits with off-topic and poorly-formatted "quotes" that have been reverted by many users here including by admins over a long period of time is enough proof that you either have an "abysmally weak reading comprehension" (as I've called it), are too lazy (for repeating the same formatting mistakes over and over again, up to today, despite receiving numerous warnings about it by different users) or too incompetent to edit, or that you are a vandal. Everyone here already knows that I don't think you should be editing, there is no point in repeating myself (other than to respond to your constant repetitions). Anyway, as I just said, I am not looking at your terrible edits anymore "because I have already suffered enough cleaning up after you". Have fun vandalizing Wikiquote. ~ DanielTom (talk) 06:09, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Is it hundreds or thousands? I thought previously you said it was thousands, and at only hundreds that's less than ten percent of my total edits that you are calling questionable. Also, feel free to revert one of the edits to the pages you find questionable, I'm not going to stop you and get banned over something as trivial as a work of fiction, that's how I got kicked off Wikipedia. I'd be curious to know why you were kicked off.
How about deleting an about section? Those are of pretty questionable value and people have had success deleting those before but seemed to have stopped for some reason, I think that would seem easy enough to reverse the direction regarding. Or if you;d like more of a challenge, what about an article in a medical journal where the precise number of citations in other papers is actually tallied? You could probably get away with deleting quotes from The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion by Will Eisner, it seems to be an unofficial rule here that no graphic novel is actually notable to include on theme pages. It's one of my more recent edits, so perhaps you haven't read it, you didn't exactly clarify when you stopped keeping an eye on me, just as you normally don't use that many details, and I imagine even if you do start going through my edits again and citing those from the past at some point in the future, you will conveniently forget to read the ones citing The Plot, such as on weapon and politics, even after specifically being told about them. For whatever strange reason this particular period of time isn't one you want to read about either now or I'm guessing ever, it's good to know as long as I keep citing that book you won't be reading any of the edits close to it either.
It's not like anyone's going to come to my defense, so have at it, until very recently almost no one with the exception of a half dozen people actually talked to me outside of administrators and those calling for me to be banned, so it's not like I'm very popular, you have a lot more people that talk to you on your talk page than I do, getting me banned should be easy for someone as popular as you. I suggest if you have developed a sudden dislike of repeating yourself over and over again, that you never displayed the many times in the past you called for me to be banned, that you attempt a more formal method than the village pump and create a discussion on the administrators noticeboard using copy paste and whatever argument you made previously. Hitting copy paste requires almost no effort, much like how copy pasting quotations in general doesn't really require much effort compared to coming up with your own words, and it's not like your argument has really changed, with the exception of mentioning unspecified formatting, by which I assume you are referring to the use of an asterisk after a colon in quotes that are not dialogue, which is the same number of errors (which for the record in this instance of formatting is one), as there are on pages where the citations for quotes do not have consistent spacing or lack thereof after an asterisk, like on the page for abortion until just recently. Now perhaps you are suggesting that the formatting of dialogue is incorrect, and that different speakers should be seperated by a br surrounded by a greater than and less than symbol to create a line space, this is how the dialogue between George W. Bush and John McCain is divided, however that is not how the dialogue in films is broken up, and there are far more pages that follow that style of formatting. Also, for the record abortion is not a subject I think I've ever actually provided my opinion on, merely those of others, because expressing our own personal opinions to argue with other editors is not the point of Wikiquote!!! Stating an opinion with the hopes of finding a notable quotation that express made by someone who is actually considered notable is a perfectly reasonable method of locating more quotations to add that could be of use to the project, such as asking about a supposed connection between poverty and military service in antiquity, which Peter1c helped me locate some quotes abou, however your personal conversations about various topics like mental health services with Peter1c that are done on user's talk pages do not serve any such purpose and could be construed as simply soap boxing. Had you asked if anyone else has express your sentiments about a subject such as for example what you said about mental health treatment being ineffective, than it would actually further this wiki's goals. I think the questions I have can be rather annoying to be asking all at once, which is why I don't create a page on the village pump asking about ten different subjects in one topic or create ten different topics and am waiting to ask them at a time I'm not busy adding quotations, either to specific users who are knowledgeable or to the village pump, but not in rapid succession. There's no formal rule against asking ten different questions that have nothing to do with each other at once, but I figure most people will agree with me when I say that would be really annoying.
Now going back to the example provided of a page with inconsistent formatting that amounts to a single typographical error; would I have been justified in deleting all those quotes on the page for abortion that I mentioned citing their formatting as justification for mass deletion? That sounds like an act of vandalism to me, regardless of how many formatting errors it may have technically removed, but if you would like to find out, feel free to try next time you run across a page that can't decide whether to add a space or not after the asterisk, I'm curious to know whether that's an acceptable reason for mass deletions, though I'm guessing it isn't. Have fun vandalizing Wikiquote! CensoredScribe (talk) 00:12, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
«Is it hundreds or thousands? I thought previously you said it was thousands» – here is what I previously said: «you have added hundreds, if not thousands, of off-topic "quotes" to hundreds of theme pages». You see, reading comprehension is not your strong suit. I won't bother reading the rest of your wall of text. ~ DanielTom (talk) 06:30, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I didn't bother going back through your edit history to see what you actually said, hence, "I thought", instead of taking the time to directly quote you after minutes spent going over your edit history, which would have taken more of my time than it would have taken of your time to read the previous post that you apparently didn't finish reading but quoted. I suppose I could attribute it to you being lazy and not finishing what you started, but I won't. Why exactly should I waste my time on you when you won't spend yours bothering to go through my most recent edits, including the ones in this sub topic? Not remembering your exact wording, which was deliberately vague, demonstrating your own imprecision, is a memory issue, not a reading issue, "Dr." DanielTom. Mostly it has to do with not wanting to think about you, perhaps the enmity is mutual. Now, is it that you won't read the wall of text, or that you can't, because if you can't than you may well have a reading problem, but diagnosing reading problems isn't my job and I very much doubt it's yours. Prove me wrong by finishing reading the great wall of four paragraphs, I believe you can do it if you try, but maybe I'm wrong and you can't.
I'm sorry if this post is too long for you to read, you rarely use more than a paragraph in your responses, perhaps anything longer than a paragraph is a wall of text to you and you can't read what you just wrote, despite your love of seeing yourself prattle off ineffective attempts at getting people you don't like banned. Mind clarifying what your definition of a wall of text is so we can make it easier for you to read what other people have to say? I think most five year old's are able to read 4 paragraphs, though probably not of medical journals. Is this post also too long for you? How short do I need to make these responses for you to be willing or able to read them? Also, why didn't you add a link to the page revision for the quotation of yourself, so that others can confirm your wording without going through your edit history and wasting their time confirming what you said? Did you also not actually bother to look through your own edit history, if so, why do you expect anyone else to go through it to confirm your quotation of yourself is accurate? You put in the extra effort of making the quotation of me green, so put in some more effort into something beyond just appearances. CensoredScribe (talk) 16:26, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Reading comprehension and memory are half-brothers. I said that «you have added hundreds, if not thousands, of off-topic "quotes" to hundreds of theme pages» in this very discussion. See my first comment in this subsection – there is no need to search the edit history, just use Ctrl+F. ~ DanielTom (talk) 17:59, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Cite web is being silly

Looking at Russ Feingold, I've got quite a few places where this citation template is apparently flipping out in one way or another, and starting the citation with a leading period and a space. See for example both quotes under 2005. Not entirely sure why. Any ideas? GMGtalk 15:33, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenMeansGo: I know why: it's because there is an archive URL. Not 100% why or how to fix it but that's the origin of the problem. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 22:06, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Pinging Wizard1 and Wizard2. GMGtalk 23:36, 20 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Where's my wizard robe and hat? Fixed, removed a few extra characters accidently inserted here that made the template think there was always an author preceding the url and so add a ". " Galobtter (talk) 08:05, 21 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Does WQ follow "normal" categories?

To be honest, a lot of the cats here are a total mess. So I set about doing some clean up today, starting with Kentucky because I happened to be on Rand Paul looking for a project for the day. But it appears User:Risto hot sir has gone behind me and made it a point to undo much of the sorting I've done (e.g., [95], [96], [97]) either reverting outright or adding back parent categories after a child category has already been created.

So is this okay? Because it would be the only project I've ever contributed to that treated categories this way. I understand an argument that a category is too particular or arbitrary to be useful. I do not understand an argument that says we should completely do away with xwiki standards for categorization trees, and I'm not going to commit any more time to sorting out the mess if someone is just going to follow behind me undoing it. GMGtalk 21:46, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You've done fine work today, thanks! Many new categories are OK, like American theologists. But I see no point that Novelists from Kentucky is more important than American novelists.--Risto hot sir (talk) 21:54, 22 August 2018 (UTC) - And think about the English writers: someone might create categories like Novelists from Yorkshire, Essex, Sussex, Middlesex, Rawsex...--Risto hot sir (talk) 22:02, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I...umm...I'm fine with that...because that's how categories work. GMGtalk 22:23, 22 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with GreenMeansGo regarding the use of parent and child categories - only the child is needed (not both). My only earlier objection was questioning whether or not some of the child categories were too specific (as it did not appear that some were needed), but in principle the practice of removing parent categories in favor of a child category is the correct one (and subsequent reversal of this is incorrect). ~ UDScott (talk) 11:44, 23 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Now I'm really amazed, GreenMeansGo, so many useful categories! But please do not create those at State level - then we would have categories like U.S. Presidents from Kentucky, left-handed Christian atheists from Illinois and so on.--Risto hot sir (talk) 21:52, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
It's difficult to tell at what point state level cats are useful, since there's still ~900 entries at the national level that haven't been sorted into any state category at all. If it's evenly distributed (which it almost certainly isn't) that's an additional 20 entries for each state category that already exists. State's like New York have another 900 or so entries in their own category only categorized at the state level. So that certainly needs state level cats, although it remains to be seen how many states are in a similar situation to New York. GMGtalk 22:21, 24 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal to delete Simple English Wikiquote and Wikibooks

There is a now a proposal to delete Simple English Wikiquote and Wikibooks. Agusbou2015 (talk) 22:31, 26 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Proposal withdrawn, and the projects will not be deleted. StevenJ81 (talk) 14:52, 28 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Editing of sitewide CSS/JS is only possible for interface administrators from now

(Please help translate to your language)

Hi all,

as announced previously, permission handling for CSS/JS pages has changed: only members of the interface-admin (Interface administrators) group, and a few highly privileged global groups such as stewards, can edit CSS/JS pages that they do not own (that is, any page ending with .css or .js that is either in the MediaWiki: namespace or is another user's user subpage). This is done to improve the security of readers and editors of Wikimedia projects. More information is available at Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS. If you encounter any unexpected problems, please contact me or file a bug.

Thanks!
Tgr (talk) 12:39, 27 August 2018 (UTC) (via global message delivery)[reply]

Cat-a-lot for WQ?

Anybody more tech savvy than me reckon there's any chance of importing something like cat-a-lot from Commons over to WQ? There are quite a few situations where this would save quite a bit of time. For example, I just now realized there is Category:Lawyers with 201 entries, and Category:Attorneys with 38. Obviously these are perfectly synonymous and there's no reason to have them both. But it would be super helpful if there was a semi-automated way to fix that without opening 38 separate tabs and performing 38 separate actions. GMGtalk 13:50, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I can easily do it but it's also possible for you to add it to your own common.js. Do you need help with the latter? If there's community support for adding it as a gadget, I'd be happy to do that. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:28, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
I tend not to touch my common.js for basically the same reason I don't allow my two-year-old to drive a car. In both cases, there would eventually be an explosion of some sort. But if you are confident that you can make the computer magic work then by all means please do. GMGtalk 16:42, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hm. Well as of an hour ago, I cannot do this (see the above thread). I'll ask for permissions. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 17:01, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh yeah. That affects all js pages doesn't it? Hmm. GMGtalk 17:39, 27 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@GreenMeansGo:  Y Done —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:38, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm... Thanks @Koavf:, I think. But how to I get my handy dandy box to pop up in the corner when I'm in category space? GMGtalk 11:44, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
You need to go to your preferences (under Gadgets) and check the box to activate it for you. ~ UDScott (talk) 12:59, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Ah ha! I thought they were just going to stick it in my commons.js, assuming it would be pretty buggy like a few of the cobbled together personalized gadgets I have on other projects, but it's transferred over for everybody. That's even better. Thanks everybody! GMGtalk 13:27, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks to you you're doing great work here. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 15:12, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Template:Official website

It looks like this template on enwiki has been updated to pull the parameter from Wikidata if no value is entered. Can we duplicate that functionality over here too? GMGtalk 13:58, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Special:Import doesn't allow for actual importing but copy/pasting with attribution is totally legit. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:04, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks. I've tried that here before, but as often as not there's Template:A that depends on Template:B that depends on Something:C and Template:D, and by the time I get B sorted out I've gotten lost. GMGtalk 19:06, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Oh. See current and immediately previous usage at Ben_Folds#External_links. Seems to now link to the website from WD, but give an error message both with and without a parameter. GMGtalk 19:08, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Turns out there are a lot of dependencies. This is a bigger task than I thought. :/ —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:09, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm... Ping User:Zyxw who seems to have done some of the heavy lifting on enwiki. GMGtalk 19:10, 29 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Template:Official website has been updated to use Wikidata:Property:P856 when a URL is not specified via a template parameter. I did that the same way most external link templates on enwiki use Wikidata, via {{#property:}}. This works in the majority of cases where Wikidata only contains one URL for the official website. For examples, see Ben Folds #External links and Tom Petty #External links. -- Zyxw (talk) 16:56, 31 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Brilliant. Thanks Zyxw! GMGtalk 13:22, 1 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]
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