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On 31 July 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Saudi Arabian professor and ACPRA co-founder Mohammad al-Qahtani expects a "snowball" loss of control by the Saudi government? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mohammad Fahad al-Qahtani. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Orlady (talk) 16:03, 31 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hello there, user. Consider that you were taking charge of contributing to the Saudi Arabian protests, if you read the recent news there would be two deaths: a protester and a government soldier. I have place the soldier name as part of the death list, but I can't really tell if that's the right place to put, unless if you really want the death table section to be under protester-ONLY death (meaning no pro-government troops were included). Either way, I will leave those for you to decide where you want to put the soldier's death. Thanks

Myronbeg (talk) 15:00, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the note, i'll have a look. BTW, i would recommend that details relevant to an article go on the article's discussion page, and a note on my talk page to let me know is enough. Also, remember WP:OWN. So even if i edit your edits, it doesn't make me the owner... If the KSA authorities ignore the 2000s in Morocco option, sooner or later there'll soon by an avalanche of new editors and i'll become a minority editor. Boud (talk) 18:21, 4 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, user. You will need this:

August 5 http://www.presstv.ir/detail/254508.html

August 6 http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/08/06/254715/saudis-hold-antiregime-demo-in-tarout/

August 7 http://www.presstv.ir/detail/254934.html

And recently 13 August http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=427435

This one is hard to use: the Ministry only says that the shooting occurred in a region where political protests take place, and specifically claims there is no link with the political protests. I think the others are now in the timeline. Boud (talk) 23:40, 14 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks
Myronbeg (talk) 13:12, 13 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hi, user. There are two events ongoing, but for the one in Awamiyah, do you think it should be under the Saudi protests or it just another outside event? If it should be included then I will include another death toll.

http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/saudis-stage-rare-protest-over-security-detentions-without-trial

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/Bangladeshi_man_shot_dead_in_Shiite_area_of_Saudi_Arabia.html?cid=33494664

Thanks. Myronbeg (talk) 14:26, 11 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/us-saudi-protests-idUSBRE88M0GT20120924 Myronbeg (talk) 05:51, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCABRE88Q05920120927 Myronbeg (talk) 07:57, 27 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On 24 August 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Alexander Barankov, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Belarusian Alexander Barankov was given political asylum in Ecuador in 2010 but risks extradition back to Belarus? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Alexander Barankov. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Casliber (talk · contribs) 00:02, 24 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On 10 September 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Political prisoners in Saudi Arabia, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that recent estimates of the number of political prisoners in Saudi Arabia range from a denial of any political prisoners at all to 30,000? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Political prisoners in Saudi Arabia. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Panyd^{The muffin is not subtle} 16:02, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Nice going with that article. Mohamed CJ (talk) 16:15, 10 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

On 3 October 2012, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Suliman al-Reshoudi, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that human rights lawyer Suliman al-Reshoudi was convicted of possessing literature by social anthropologist Madawi al-Rasheed? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Suliman al-Reshoudi. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

Yngvadottir (talk) 00:03, 3 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Are you familiar with this case? [1] If I can find enough sources, I'm going to try to start an article on al-Hashimi in the next couple days. Thought you might be interested, given your previous work in this area. Cheers, and enjoy the week, -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:21, 21 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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http://observers.france24.com/content/20121109-people-will-not-forget-those-killed-saudi-shiites-march-dead-saudi-arabia-qatif-protest Myronbeg (talk) 04:27, 10 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It was agreed already on the talk page of that article that there are no sources to confirm a Battle of Damascus, it was the POV of one editor, Alhanuty. Also, the article was more of a content fork from the Rif Dimashq campaign article. All other editors agreed that the info from the article was better suited to Rif Dimashq campaign article (by a count of 3 to 1). And it was merged. Alhanuty went against consensus and reverted back without even talking. Alhanuty didn't even try to start a new discussion, he simply went against a majority consensus. And I'm once again pointing out that the article, which he created, is totally at this point his own POV because there are no sources to indicate a battle for Damascus or even a siege as he suggested. Also, more than half the content he put in the article is already in the other one. The current rebel offensive that Alhanuty has been pointing out to has not been happening in Damascus itself, but 30 kilometers to the east of the capital in Rif Dimashq province, which the Rif Dimashq campaign article already covers in detail. This includes the airport which itself is not in the capital itself, but 30 kilometers southeast from it, and is already covered in the other article. I have merged the new content that you added to the Rif Dimashq campaign article, thank you for those updates. EkoGraf (talk) 14:43, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

P.S. I clarified those sentences you pointed out to at the Casualties article. Hope they are good now. :) EkoGraf (talk) 14:49, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ok, since it has become a hot topic I made a totally new proposal at Rif Dimashq campaign article. The main central article on all the fighting in Damascus capital and Rif Dimashq province will be 2011–2012 Damascus clashes. The sub-articles to that article will be Battle of Damascus/Operation Damascus Volcano, Darayya massacre, 1st Rif Dimashq offensive (military August-September; result - indecisive), 2nd Rif Dimashq offensive (rebel November-present; result - ongoing). So in essence I am proposing to split Rif Dimashq campaign up into a 1st offensive and 2nd offensive articles, the military one and rebel one. Since the issue of the scope of the article has been hotly debated. And some even proposed that the article cover all the way since November 2011, but 2011–2012 Damascus clashes already does this. So, can we agree on splitting the article into two offensives? Since we already agreed that there have in fact been two offensives. And the 2nd offensive article would of course also include the current sporadic clashes in the capital, although they are still minimal. EkoGraf (talk) 15:40, 3 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

In reply to not seeing Alhanuty commenting anywhere on that talk page, he is user 24.0.208.70. In any case seems we have reached a wide agreement on what to do with all of the articles. EkoGraf (talk) 14:23, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can you comment on this? FutureTrillionaire (talk) 22:01, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Can you comment on this also? Talk:Rif Dimashq offensive (November 2012–present)#Damascus offensive. -- FutureTrillionaire (talk) 23:18, 18 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Hiya. I just wanted to say how much I appreciated your support on the unintentional but irritating debacle on the recent 2013 Ghouta attacks edit block. I picked it up, and you put much work running with it. I recommended at the beginning that a SP should be set. It was rejected. I think that was the worst admin oversight. No blame, just having to think off the cuff. Anyway, cheers! Irondome (talk) 05:28, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Glad that you found my work useful! Boud (talk) 15:06, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for taking the time to look over the Dolfinarium Harderwijk article. Apparently I missed a whole lot of small mistakes and you managed to further clear up some other sentences as well. It is appreciated! I also wish to express my appreciation for the articles you create and contribute to yourself. You produce some really important and in-the-news content. Keep it up. Crispulop (talk) 22:57, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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On 10 September 2013, Did you know? was updated with a fact from the article Geneva II Middle East peace conference, which you created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that during the weeks before the 2013 Ghouta attacks, Lakhdar Brahimi and Ban Ki-moon worked closely with Russian and US diplomats towards a possible Geneva II Syrian peace conference? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Geneva II Middle East peace conference. You are welcome to check how many hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, quick check) and it will be added to DYKSTATS if it got over 5,000. If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created article, then please suggest it on the Did you know? talk page.

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On 5 October 2015, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that Ali al-Nimr used a BlackBerry to encourage protests, underwent an unfair trial, and may soon be crucified and beheaded? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Ali Mohammed Baqir al-Nimr. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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YasminaDD (talk) 22:46, 2 June 2018 (UTC) Hi Boud.Thanks for your edit. I added a reference for the first "citation needed". However, for the second part, I am not sure how can I cite emails and meetings that took place years ago?[reply]

Other Wikipedians will have to judge the validity of your first reference - see WP:NONENG for suggestions.

For the second part, you would need to convince, for example, a journalist or someone active in a human rights organisation that this is an important issue, and provide the emails and reports or verbal memories of the meetings to that person to help convince him/her that this really happened. If that person then published a report (preferably online: newspaper article, human rights report) with the information in those sentences, then that would be one example of a secondary source for the information. Someone who is recognised as a journalist or publishes in a serious newspaper, or who is active in a human rights organisation and succeeds in getting his/her report published officially, is someone who has judged the validity of the information and should be aware of the context; his/her report or article will also have gone through several degrees of criticism by colleagues/editors. This type of procedure does not guarantee that the information is reliable, but it does tend to remove some obvious types of false facts. Different organisations and publishers also have different reputations for fact-checking. As long as the publishers have been around for a long time, Wikipedians can generally make some judgement about whether a publisher satisfies WP:RS or not, although obviously there's a fuzzy middle ground.

If Yasminah E. has an online public cv, then that would count as a primary source, which is not normally acceptable - see e.g. Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons#Misuse_of_primary_sources, although there are exceptions.

This might sound unfair, since you feel that these facts are important and should be in the Wikipedia article and you're sure they're true. (I personally have no reason to believe that they're false, and they seem both credible and relevant to me.) But you have to think of the whole system of trying to check claims of facts and trace their sources, and see the point of view of Wikipedians and Wikipedia readers. There are millions of people around the world who contact ministers and bureaucrats and politicians and successfully convince them to implement administrative/legal changes. But who judges what were the "causal" factors that led to the change? Journalists, historians, human rights organisations have (some) credibility for judging what the facts are and how significant they are and who/what was most important in getting the change to happen. Wikipedia does not substitute for them. You can see longer (more careful :)) explanations of what I've more or less said here in the links above, especially:

• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:NOR
• Wikipedia:COI - if you are the same Yasminah... (you don't have to say if you are, but you should read the guideline)
• WP:BLP - Yasminah Elsaadany is presumably still alive, and Wikipedia is especially sensitive to claims of facts about living people (though positive facts are less sensitive than negative ones).

Boud (talk) 23:56, 2 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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H2 refers to "You're not allowed to approve your own hook...". Sure, that's obvious.

I guess what you're trying to say is that my variations on FallingGravity's hook and tweaking of his/her ALT3 hook are felt by you to be "my" hook. Given that ALT1 and ALT2 contained almost the same information as FallingGravity's original hook, and that FallingGravity wrote ALT3, and I only modified it a little, I don't really think it can be called "my" hook without modification of the guideline.

I propose to work on your suggestion of an extra guideline at Wikipedia_talk:Did_you_know/Supplementary_guidelines#H5_-_a_reviewer-modified_hook_needs_a_third-party_reviewer. Boud (talk) 07:32, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Just to clarify in this particular case: although I wouldn't use the description "my hook", I do see that it would have been useful to let a third-party reviewer judge whether or not to finish the review, e.g. using subst:DYK?again, especially since there's a BLP aspect here. Boud (talk) 08:03, 4 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there, I'm new to Wikipedia and don't really know how it works, but I created an article about a prominant and notable woman. I'm wondering how to get it to appear on Wikipedia. Can you help? It's over here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Cyan_Banister

Thank you if you can help!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1Mynamegoeshere1 (talk • contribs) 23:11, 7 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi. I've moved this article to draft because it is in a pretty poor state. It looks like you created it from existing content so it's nothing personal. However, it's obvious that the subject of the article has been editing it and it is basically promotional from start to finish. If you want to do anything about it, you know where to find it. Deb (talk) 12:50, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Deb. I've put an edit history analysis at Draft talk:Naresh Dadhich (political scientist)#Disambiguation from 2008. So yes, the "this-is-ND's-brilliant-self-cv" content was put copied there by me under the assumption that it was covered by CC-BY-SA, without condoning the (low) quality. As a matter of principle, do we have any policies about removing an article from mainspace to Draft - without any of the normal discussion procedures for move and delete proposals?

In terms of practicality, in this particular case, it's probably hard to complain and WP:SNOWBALL applies. In 12 years of en.WP history, the ND-political-scientist article has not progressed at all. Four titles of what appear to be books and no other bibliometric information do not constitute a list of verifiable references for inline sourcing of factual claims in the article. The involvement of User:Nareshdadhich, whose user page looks like a not-very-humble cv, doesn't suggest that the person most motivated to improve the quality of the article by asking for help from uninvolved parties has made any effort to read any Wikipedia guidelines. (Which makes me wonder about the author's would-be academic skills...)

So I'm not disputing the move, but I am curious about whether a policy exists. There could be similar cases that are not so clear-cut. Boud (talk) 21:14, 27 January 2019 (UTC) minor edit Boud (talk) 21:16, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think so, but I've done it once or twice recently (I should add that I came across this one purely by accident - I wasn't tracking the article creator or anything.) It certainly meets the criteria for speedy deletion, but this seemed like a less drastic solution. I'm not sure where to go from here. Deb (talk) 21:18, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

It's an unreferenced BLP. That would have justified deletion. I agree that draftifying was nicer. I'm going to put a template on the ND-the-Wikipedian's talk page - as a retired political scientist and VC, he might be willing to invest the time to learn the elementary academic principles as practised at en.Wikipedia. Chances are he hasn't yet realised that this corner of "the Internet" is not just "click and it works", and that intellectual care and effort are expected and required. Boud (talk) 21:26, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In case you're curious, Deb - you can see my suggestions at User talk:Nareshdadhich. Boud (talk) 22:04, 27 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi Why the name of the article is Sovereignty Council of Sudan and not Sovereignty Council? --Panam2014 (talk) 23:01, 21 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Panam2014 - In this name change MayorCarter made the change from Sovereignty Council (2019) to Sovereignty Council of Sudan without respecting the fact that a debate was opened: I warned him/her about that. I'm assuming good faith, that MayorCarter will learn from this mistake. In terms of Wikipedia principles, the move made by MayorCarter has no effect on the discussion, except for annoying people. If you like you can ask for admin help for temporary move protection - and explain that it would help for the present discussion to move the name back to the name when the move request started, to reduce confusion. Keep in mind that the better you explain yourself, with appropriate links, rather than forcing admins to have to look for all the info themselves, the more likely it is that an admin will respond to you quickly. Start from the top of Wikipedia:Protection_policy for more info about admins (how they're selected, who they are) and this particular role of admins. See Template:diff for a guideline on how to show individual edits like I did above. Boud (talk) 00:27, 22 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

A note about using a peer-to-peer communication app in HK is interesting, but I'm afraid it's not about Bluetooth mesh protocol, as standardized by Bluetooth SIG. To my knowledge, none of the phones available on the market are capable of peer-to-peer Bluetooth mesh communication. They only can talk to mesh network if one of the nodes provide them with so-called proxy capability. So I assume that Bridgefy app uses some other form of mesh communication, most probably based on iBeacon protocol. iBeacon is based on Bluetooth Low Energy like Bluetooth mesh is, but they are different things. Summarizing, I'd suggest to move your info to some other Bluetooth- or mesh- related pages. MichalHobot (talk) 11:43, 3 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@MichalHobot: The sources used in the article do not, as far as I can see, make the surprising claim that "mesh networking" is a protocol. It might well be true that Bridgefy is not based on the Bluetooth Mesh network specifications but instead on iBeacon, which according to you depends on Bluetooth Low Energy. If so, please add your sources and cite the info from them at Bridgefy, and it would be best to use web.archive.org or wikiwix.com to include archiveurl's so that if the sources are volatile, the Wikipedia entries will still make sense in a few years' time. Nobody guarantees that s/he will maintain any given Wikipedia article...

It would be best to place more specific discussion on the talk pages of these articles - interested readers and editors are more likely to find the info in the obvious place in that case - thanks! :) Boud (talk) 01:16, 4 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

MichalHobot, a Comparison of mesh networking software might be a good thing to make from some of the software at Category:Mesh networking. We also have Smartphone ad hoc network, Wireless ad hoc network and Wireless mesh network, which seems like it might be a bit redundant. HLHJ (talk) 02:58, 2 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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How do you fix the "|first= missing |last=" errors? Quebec99 (talk) 17:24, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I think you may have already started fixing that - see this edit. Instead of first and last, use author. My interpretation is that these authors are initials, but there would be no point trying to separate out the initials into "last" and "first" names. It would be speculation. In principle, looking at the newspaper's list of journalists should make it possible to work out who is who, but that would be quite a bit of work. Boud (talk) 17:40, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I made a few of these changes just now, but I'm happy to leave it to you to do more on this series of pages. Since Press TV often lists two authors with a slash - AB/CD, meaning e.g. Andrew Bloggs and Carol Dean - we could in principle split to |author1=AB |author2=CD. Since the author information in this case is already weak, I would say that keeping a single author is just as useful as the split. Boud (talk) 17:48, 8 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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OK, I re-read the info at the top of Template:Use_dmy_dates - I think you (and the bot) are right about the intended meaning of the date tag in the use dmy dates case. Boud (talk) 20:20, 5 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Only you and me have expressed opinions. Do u know anyone who could finally close that move request and do the rename? 83.11.94.170 (talk) 16:47, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Anybody with an account can move the page. (I've gone ahead and done it.) Could you look back over the article and restructure it so it doesn't still have 2018 protests / 2019 protests as its main division? I hacked away everything post-summer 2019, but decided to leave the actual sectioning of the remaining gno-ledge to the experts. :) 🌿 SashiRolls ^{t · c} 23:28, 7 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I have read that involved editors should not close requests. I have no idea about the two sections division. Certainly there should remain some reference into 2019. Hacking away only post-summer 2019? Well since the rename everything post 2018 should go out. So I did some of it also. Thanks. 83.11.94.170 (talk) 03:41, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Everything should go out except a general reference of 2019. Well what is now does not look bad. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.11.94.170 (talk) 03:44, 8 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Reference TO 2019. Sorry. English is not my native. 83.11.214.121 (talk) 18:05, 11 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I started an RfC concerning pointing to the template namespace in the COVID 19 navbox. You voiced an opinion about this voiced about a week ago, so please feel free to restate your opinion at Template talk:COVID-19#RfC on linking to template namespace.  Bait30  ^Talk? 05:11, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, You have previously said that there's a button "Upload a new version of this file" on the Commons:File:COVID-19 Outbreak Cases in Poland.svg but I dont see any button like that, and there's also is a text saying "You cannot overwrite this file." So, how I can upload an updated, a newer version of that .svg picture? Thx, for help. Natanieluz (talk) 13:26, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Natnieluz: If you have Polish set in your preferences: go to the bottom of the section "Historia pliku". Just above the next section "Wykorzystanie pliku" you should see "Załaduj nowszą wersję tego pliku". In English do the equivalent. :) In many browsers (e.g. firefox), you can use Ctrl-f to search for a string (sequence of characters) within the page. Do you see "You cannot overwrite this file." at the position in the page that I'm talking about? Boud (talk) 17:00, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I found the explanation: Commons:Commons:FAQ#How_can_I_upload_a_new_version_of_a_file.3F + Commons:User_talk:Natanieluz - you only created an account at Commons at 16:43, 6 March 2020 UTC = 17:43 CET, so you'll have to wait two more days, until 17:43 CET 10 March, before being able to upload new versions. I don't think that for you to switch to new file names for each update until then would be reasonable. The idea of forcing people to wait until they've had a chance to learn is reasonable, and four days is not extremely long. For reading through the various guideline pages, four days is in fact rather short. Building an encyclopedia is a long-term project. At your talk page on Commons you have a welcome message pointing to lots of th e key guidelines. If you switch your preferences language to Polish, then this welcome message will very likely to switch to Polish. Boud (talk) 17:27, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you are right.

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Hi, from this I figure you know something about tables. On 2019–20_coronavirus_outbreak the desire is to have the Template:COVID-19 testing table collapsed, and when expanded to have headings that are sortable. Unfortunately that seems technically hard, that there is a choice between either having it collapsible or having it sortable, see Template_talk:COVID-19_testing#Autocollapsing. Can you help? Sun Creator^(talk) 16:13, 11 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, you often write: the ref source is/should be in one of the templates, can You tell me where (in which template this is), how You made that source and how to use it? Natanieluz (talk) 21:45, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

hi Natanieluz. The templates are Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/Poland medical cases and Template:2019–20 coronavirus pandemic data/Poland medical cases by voivodeship (which you edit quite often). The idea is that the full source for a reference should only be in one of these; references in the other or in the main article should be repeat references. I've noticed that recently you've started using repeat references :), which to me makes sense. However, you're using ref names such as ":0", which apparently is the only option allowed by Visual Editor. I edit the wikicode directly using a text editor. This allows me to use the keyboard and keyboard shortcuts, almost without using the mouse, which makes editing fast and efficient. I use the firefox browser and the emacs text editor. Emacs has many powerful tools to make systematic editing efficient. To use these two together, in my ~/.emacs file I have

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/lisp") (require 'edit-server) (edit-server-start) 

and in ~/.emacs.d/lisp/ I have the edit-server.el code that does the work. Here's a longer explanation. When I start an "edit" on Wikipedia, I see a little "edit" button at the bottom-right of my editing window; if I click on this, I get a standard emacs editing window, which has the full power of emacs, rather than just the firefox editing tools. I don't know if VE (Visual Editor) shows you the reference names; if you try edit code to at least look at the source, you'll see ref names such as MOHPL_LD8_DS5_OP1_SL1_ZP1_PD1_17Mar. The idea is that when you're looking at the full reference, you cross-check the name against the actual source of the reference; and when you're editing numbers in a table, you can add up the numbers from the name, e.g. if the references for one day include DS5 DS2 DS1, then you expect to get DS=8.

With other powerful text editors (where you can do everything from the keyboard without wasting time with a mouse), e.g. vi, (and there are many, many text editor programs available that are less powerful than emacs and vi), you'll have to find other ways of connecting them to your browser.

For making the structured references, you're welcome to cut and paste from notes on my user page (they're obviously CC-BY-SA, since they're on Wikipedia), or make similar notes on your own page.

Hope this answers your question. :) (BTW, in English you don't capitalise the "y" in you, except at the beginning of a sentence. :)) Boud (talk) 22:32, 17 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Boud: ohh ok, thanks - and sorry for late answer but I have pretty bussy days right now. Yea and I know that "you" is writted with "y" not "Y", but I like starting you with "Y" couse of (for me) that make more pleasant and welcoming  :). So there is a more "easy" way to make that sources like you? or is this 100% needed to be done with every source? Natanieluz (talk) 18:58, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Each of us contributes what s/he can: we're all volunteers, including you. I think that this method (with names such as MOHPL_LD8_DS5_OP1_SL1_ZP1_PD1_17Mar) is good and will tend to reduce errors, but you've seen that I made a few errors recently, even with this method. I've seen that a few other editors have been following the method with the information in the ref name. But as long as you don't mind me or others updating your references with the longer named ones, you shouldn't feel bad about adding references with the ":0" label from VisualEditor. This is already better than copy/pasting the same reference in full detail many times. :) Boud (talk) 21:44, 20 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Boud: okey, if I am not wrong, I can "manualy" (in VisualEditor or in source editor) edit that ":0" to source name, like you done here [2], in short - when I publish changes in VE and then we have ":0" I can manualy overwrite which source name e.g."MOHPL_WP4_DS3_PD2_PK1_MA1_LU1_KP1_452tot_21Mar", if that will work - I will do that Natanieluz (talk) 14:24, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Natanieluz: Sounds good to me. :) Boud (talk) 14:35, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Boud: I did it, there isn't anymore ":0", can you see if that works normally? thx, Natanieluz (talk) 20:48, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Natanieluz: Nice work :). I made just one edit on the voivodeships template.

Also see this edit to the medical cases template. If you look carefully at the two templates, you'll see <noinclude>...</noinclude> sections in each, at the top, and at the bottom. This means that when the template is included in another page, the noinclude parts are ignored. Each of these two templates calls the other one in its own noinclude section. If you look at a template on its own, you see the noinclude parts. This way, a reference in one can be used in the other, and looks OK without having to go to the main article. But also, the main article does not end up with multiple copies of the same reference. If you want, you can experiment in your user space, e.g. create User:Natanieluz/sandbox/test, User:Natanieluz/sandbox/medtemplate, User:Natanieluz/sandbox/voivodetemplate, and put {{User:Natanieluz/sandbox/voivode}} in a noinclude section in /sandbox/medtemplate, and do it the other way around too, and put in some simple references. Put in a bit of text, enough to avoid getting confused which article is where. Boud (talk) 21:35, 21 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Boud: now is everything good? Natanieluz (talk) 18:38, 22 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Natanieluz: In terms of the logic of referencing and cross-referencing, I didn't see any mistakes. :) I looked at your edits without separating them from those of other people - there were one or two others who made minor changes not long after you did - but I assume the changes were mostly from your edits. I made one change (to the three pages) in the name label: there was DS twice, instead of MA4 the second time. The numbers in the tables were correct (it seems to me); it's only the label itself that was wrong, and it was wrong in a consistent way, so it was only a problem for humans, not for robots. Someone coming along later (one of us or someone else) might have got confused later on. I made that sort of mistake in name labels at least once or twice. Also, I replaced http by https - for some people this is quite important for personal privacy - see especially Edward Snowden to understand why most of the world shifted from http to https a few years ago - and I changed archive.vn to archive.today - see