User talk:PrimeHunter/Archive 13

WP:LAME

Okay; I made a talk page section here. Feel free to comment on it. The N^th User I like to use parser functions. Care to differ or discuss? 18:06, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Everywhere I look, I see you helping people. I'm tired just reading your posts :) (Please keep it up). S Philbrick(Talk) 22:50, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! I do get tired sometimes when I should have gone to bed. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:58, 6 January 2018 (UTC)

Source links

I'm interested in trying out your Source Links script – think it could be really helpful when cleaning up backlinks from article renamings. The instructions say to add the script to my common.js subpage, which I don't actually have. Probably a stupid question, but if I create that page to add the script, does it conflict at all with the monobook.js page where I already have some scripts? Monobook is the active appearance set in my preferences. Mlaffs (talk) 15:07, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

@Mlaffs: You are free to add it in either the existing monobook.js or create common.js. common.js runs in all skins in addition to any skin specific file like monobook.js, not instead of it. Most JavaScript works in all skins. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:09, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

Did not know that – thanks! I'm unreasonably excited about how much easier this might make things for me. Mlaffs (talk) 17:12, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

@Mlaffs: Good luck with it. I looked at your recent edits. Edits like [1] are not necessary. A null edit (but not a purge) has the same effect including to update backlinks. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:19, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

More than 10 years active here, and I'm still learning stuff. That's both cool and a little embarrassing. I usually wouldn't bother with edits like that, but the job queue seems to be crazy backed up these past few days, and I couldn't complete a swap I'm doing without be confident that the backlinks were all addressed. Of course, with your script, problem solved. Mlaffs (talk) 17:29, 26 January 2018 (UTC)

To be fair...

Most of the times I've heard someone say "I need professional help" it's umm... more in a "therapy" context... which may also occasionally apply on Wikipedia. GMG^talk 02:35, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Sure, without context. Here it was "i need professional help to cover this article further. I hope you'll help me finish the last part". PrimeHunter (talk) 02:40, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

I just got a chuckle of the selected quote. But often, and especially I've noticed with the email queue, it is really surprising how many people assume we're all Wikipedia employees sitting in a cube somewhere. Maybe that's a type of failing of our community outreach/education in its own way. GMG^talk 02:46, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

Advice needed with disruptive editing

Where is the proper place to take this dispute? I'm not sure what to do with editor YoungDylan anymore. I have told him not to mass remove the term "professional" in summaries, his talk page, and article pages. I brought it up at Tennis Project, where those who participated said we should use "professional" for our professional players. This editor knows all this yet continues to mass remove the term from many articles. If this was one article I'd go with content dispute and move on, leaving that one article to his choosing, but in this case I'm worried about articles such as Roger Federer or featured articles such as Milos Raonic. This has to stop and I'm tired of having to do it. I'm throwing up my hands in surrender as I find this very disruptive to the Tennis Project. I posted one final plead on his talk page not to change anymore lest it be brought to administration... less than 2 hours later it was done again. I always hesitate to bring things to ANI, but I don't seem to be getting through to him in the slightest.

I have not gone around adding the term to any articles... it seems like such low priority with all that needs being done to our tennis articles. I re-added the term to his removals. It's removed again. I can't ignore the wholesale removals that this editor is doing right now. Any article with the term "professional" (as opposed to collegiate, or junior, or amateur) is in his cross hairs. At first I simply re-added the term to articles where he did the removal, since he also added some good stuff. When that got ignored I reverted the entire addition and asked him to re-submit it without the removals. That didn't work either. Any advice on where to take it or what can be done since more and more articles are being affected every day? Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:59, 3 February 2018 (UTC)

I have posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tennis#Professional, junior, amateur, college? PrimeHunter (talk) 00:56, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Editor in question seems to persist in his behavior. Continued edit-warring by removing the term "professional" without engaging in discussion on the project talk page. Hides the edits by marking them as minor and giving a false edit summary. See diff. This is not constructive.--Wolbo (talk) 16:39, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

The WP:3RR is about 24h time period (and doesn't stand for reverting vandalism), so you wouldn't have broken any rules with List of IOC meetings. --Pelmeen10 (talk) 23:53, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:56, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

WP:How to create a page

Hi, PrimeHunter. I was surprised to see you point someone at this when they asked how to create a page (WP:HD#Create a page). In my experience, when a newish editor asks how to create a page, they always want to create an article - typically they barely know that any other kind of page exists. I didn't know WP:HTCAP existed, but I don't think it's helpful for this purpose. I'm against even suggesting that new editors create articles directly, and prefer always to direct them to AFC, via WP:YFA, as RudolfRed did just two questions earlier. --ColinFine (talk) 10:25, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Yes, that is probably better. But they did have edits to five namespaces, and the lead of WP:How to create a page has links to Wikipedia:Your first article, article wizard and Wikipedia:Articles for creation. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:38, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

A goat for you!

Thanks for the help

Higginsal (talk) 22:38, 28 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 00:32, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

help desk

hi, I noticed you answer questions at the help desk as well, I post there yesterday[2] but haven't gotten any response, can you help? thanks--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:36, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Sorry, I don't know anything about that. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:32, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

thanks anyway--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 11:45, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

Serena Williams - protected ranking IW 2018

You have repeatedly refused to acknowledge the fact that S. Williams starts in the IW 2018 through PR. I have given links from several sources, but you ignore it with an excuse that they are not true. You even threaten me to be blocked, which is unheard of. It is irritating to me that you proudly stand in the position of a judge. It is a matter of concern to you that on the women's singles page there is a PR and not on the tournament page for S. Williams. This is not a quote, but a voucher for measuring a double meter. Know that I will not let you intimidate and find a way to prove that S. Williams this year IW is playing PR. Mouchatm (talk) 17:51, 10 March 2018 (UTC)

Sorry

Sorry about the edit i made on the teahouse.... Was just trying to help. Thegooduser Let's Chat 02:11, 15 March 2018 (UTC)

not a wiki

I won't revert [3]*, but actually: it is not even a wiki. Where can I have it killed? Is there a WP:OEIS? - DePiep (talk) 23:28, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

* for now, that is. -DePiep (talk) 23:32, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

@DePiep: fullurl works on an interwiki link like OEIS:A000668. interwiki links are a form of wikilinks. It works because OEIS has an entry in meta:Interwiki map. Your edit broke all OEIS links made by the infobox so it had to be either reverted or fixed in another way. The bottom of a template edit window has a box "Preview page with this template". If you enter "Mersenne prime" in your version [4] then it displays Mersenne prime with the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https://oeis.org/A000668 in the infobox. We could give the OEIS url directly without using fullurl but why do you want to change a link that works fine? If OEIS ever changes url structure (as they have in the past) then a single update of meta:Interwiki map will fix all OEIS links in all Wikimedia wikis if they use interwiki links like OEIS:A000668, as {{Infobox integer sequence}} does now via fullurl. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:51, 28 March 2018 (UTC)

Hi. Just 16 articles have this infobox. [5]

1. Mersenne prime
2. Fermat number
3. Repunit
4. Wieferich prime
5. Wilson prime
6. Wall–Sun–Sun prime
7. Unique prime
8. Permutable prime
9. Palindromic prime
10. Double Mersenne number
11. Wagstaff prime
12. Chen prime
13. Fibonacci prime
14. Circular prime
15. Wolstenholme prime
16. Erdős–Nicolas number

Still you claim Your edit broke all OEIS links, which is curious because I myself did multiple checks beforehand and, of course, did not see anything bad. - DePiep (talk) 01:05, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Please be more specific. In your reversing edit you wrote, es: Broke all links. fullurl only works on wikilinks. However, I could not reproduce any error. Please help clarifying & solving. -DePiep (talk) 03:02, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

@DePiep: I meant it broke all links which are made by that template code. I thought that was implicit. Of course it doesn't break OEIS links made by other code. I reverted your edit so the links made by that code are working now. I told you exactly how to reproduce the error: The bottom of a template edit window has a box "Preview page with this template". If you enter "Mersenne prime" in your version [6] then it displays Mersenne prime with the link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Https://oeis.org/A000668 in the infobox. Another way to test template edits before saving them is to make a test call of the template inside <noinclude>...</noinclude> and use preview. The preview will use the template version you are previewing. Some things cannot be tested this way but {{Infobox integer sequence}} can be tested. I don't know how you make tests now but if you do it by saving the template and viewing a page using the template then you often have to purge the test page to update it to use the new version of the template. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:09, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

OK. I understand all this, & you are right all along. What remains is (not for this talk): a weird link it is. - DePiep (talk) 19:40, 29 March 2018 (UTC)

Seeking advice on "consensus" at WP:VPR on implementing a keyboard shortcut

Hi - sorry to trouble you. If you have a moment, I'd really welcome your advice re this proposal that I put to WP:VPR recently (the first proposal I've ever submitted). It only received four supports and no opposes, and the thread is now archived, so I'm unsure of my next step, or whether such limited support prevents me taking this forward. Four !votes is hardly a resounding consensus, yet it's a benign but potentially useful proposal for a keyboard shortcut that I'd still like to get implemented if possible. So, in your experience of technical matters, could you advise me whether I should now forget this, or if 4-0 is sufficient a consensus to take it forward, and if so whether submitting a Phabricator request is the right way to achieve that? Or should I tout around at places like WP:NPR for further support? Many thanks, Nick Moyes (talk) 23:27, 8 April 2018 (UTC)

Three languages and counting

I still don't quite get Wikipedia:Help_desk#Danish_translation. Does it mean something like "It's hard to critisize this because it's so good"? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 14:08, 17 April 2018 (UTC)

Prime

Hi, What's you take on the latest edits on Primes in arithmetic progression? Is this a cunning edit war? Neils51 (talk) 09:33, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

@Neils51: They are edit warring between the current and former largest known prime number. It should be the current record if anything (I guess one of them doesn't know the new record), but 1 prime in arithmetic progression doesn't make much sense and the lead definition says "at least three prime numbers". I will remove it entirely and update some other records later today. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:08, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

2018-19 NBA Transactions

Can you fix the 2018-19 NBA transactions page from red to blue please because there's 3 references can you fix it now. 2600:8803:7A00:976A:759E:DAE8:EAB3:1115 (talk) 14:21, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

I agree with the reviewer that Draft:List of 2018-19 NBA season transactions has insufficient content for an article now. PrimeHunter (talk) 15:16, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Finding and editing world map

Thank you for your assistance in relation to my request for 'Finding and editing world map' on 18th April, 2018. Regards.--Mrodowicz (talk) 04:08, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

A cookie for you!

Thanks so much for the speedy reply at the Teahouse! ⇒ Lucie Person (talk) 21:29, 22 April 2018 (UTC)

Sandbox help

Hi PrimeHunter...Thanks for your help with my page. Yes, it now displays all the text I was trying to add. Still not able to publish by clicking 'Publish Changes' I must still be doing something wrong. Tlvernon (talk) 02:13, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

@Tlvernon: "Publish changes" just means you save the page so it becomes visible to others. I guess you are trying to make it part of the encyclopedia where it shows up in searches. I have added a box with a submit button to User:Tlvernon/sandbox. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:11, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for fixing my URL/website issue! :)

SunnyBoi (talk) 15:26, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

Help: List of most viewed online trailers in the first 24 hours

Please revert all changes made since April 21st to the "List of most viewed online trailers in the first 24 hours". User Polima jahan (talk) inserted an uncorroborated claim regarding the recent trailer for "Venom (2018 film)". The user cited an article (with an unrelated reference's archived link attached) which made absolutely no mention about viewing statistics whatsoever. The statistic seems to be completely made up, since there are no verifiable online sources providing that viewcount number. Thank you! —Samatict (talk) 12:04, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

@Samatict: I couldn't find a source and have reverted it. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:41, 25 April 2018 (UTC)

Thank you! If I knew how to do multiple reverts in one edit I would've done it myself. — Samatict (talk) 10:55, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

@Samatict: One method is to click a time stamp in the page history, edit and save. See more at Help:Reverting. PrimeHunter (talk) 17:11, 26 April 2018 (UTC)

Template sorting in article categories

Hello. :) Thanks for information. I fixed all wrong articles. Greetings :) Filipid011 (talk) 01:24, 03 May 2018 (UTC)

AWB prob?

Did you see the msg yesterday at Template talk:Infobox website? Just wondering if you can help? MB 19:42, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

@MB: I posted what I know to Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs#Bug in preview. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:14, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

OK, I missed that. There doesn't seem to be a lot of activity there. I will probably just open a Phabricator report on this in a few days if no one says anything further. Do you think I could call it a "bug" or should it be filed as a "new feature". It seems to me that AWB "preview" is supposed to replicate "preview". MB 20:29, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

@MB: Many of the posts at Wikipedia talk:AutoWikiBrowser/Bugs did get fast replies. I would wait a few days as you say before a Phabricator report. I don't know whether AWB has access to MediaWiki-generated warnings above the preview. The warnings appear in the browser version of the site but AWB has to use the API for software tools. It's possible it works differently but I don't know enough about it. I would call it a feature request to include such warnings. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:49, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

FYI, I did open a Phab report and the problem was "fixed" in about a week, but it seems that the fix won't be available until the next version of AWB is released. MB 21:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

thanks much.

thank you so much for editing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adultcartoonlover56 (talk • contribs) 17:36, 12 May 2018 (UTC)

{{Search box}}

OK, that's how it's done! I tried the pipe symbol for some reason. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 17:12, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@Bellezzasolo: That's the natural thing to try. It's confusing that magic words and parser functions have a colon before the first argument. Maybe Template:NAMESPACE should be redirected to Template:Namespace, or the latter moved to the former. Its' normal to have all capitals in the templates listed at Category:Pages which use a template in place of a magic word. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:43, 13 May 2018 (UTC)

@Bellezzasolo: The namespaces fix is no longer needed and it makes a non-functioning menu so I have reverted my inputbox fixes per [7]. I suggest you do the same. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:06, 14 May 2018 (UTC)

 Done, thanks for the advice. ∰Bellezzasolo✡ Discuss 01:03, 15 May 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Guidance Barnstar
	Thanks so much for guiding me more than once to the answers of things! Thanks thanks thanks! ⇒ Lucie Person (talk) 00:55, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 10:15, 16 May 2018 (UTC)

User:Sj/Update Congress

Your edit of User:Sj/Update Congress resulted in a Multi colon escape lint error. I fixed the error by removing the final colon of the final line, which was

{{#invoke:String|replace|{{:Current_members_of_the_United_States_House_of_Representatives}}|Category|:Category}}

I have no idea how this works. Is there documentation for #invoke? —Anomalocaris (talk) 04:22, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

JJMC89 reverted my edit because the colon is necessary to reference rather than include categories. How do we avoid putting this page in categories and also avoid the multi colon escape lint error? —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:28, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

@Anomalocaris: It started at Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#User sandbox pages in mainspace categories. #invoke calls a function in a module. In this case it was Module:String#replace. See Wikipedia:Lua. I have used Module:Suppress categories instead. Module calls work almost exactly like template calls but the Lua language to write modules is completely different. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:47, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for taking care of this! —Anomalocaris (talk) 17:20, 17 May 2018 (UTC)

Sorry; this is the problem with fighting an edit war

edits can pile up on each other. Serendi^podous 16:22, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Christianity

Not sure what happened to my question on Humanities/Christianity. It closed. I object to Jesus Christ being referred to as having lived, done anything at all, and to have died and risen. This is not established. It is provably untrue now, btw. Sahansdal (talk) 22:36, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

I think it's a small minority viewpoint among non-Christian historians that Jesus never lived, and a very small minority would say it's provably untrue that he lived. See WP:UNDUE if you want articles to say that. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:04, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

Natural density

I've been trying to contribute to the almost all article, and (among other things) used the term "natural density" at its lead when referring to a set. I just noticed you did something somewhat similar 12 years ago (you surely remember that!) and then reverted your own edit because "natural density speaks of sequences, not sets". I'd delete the reference to natural density if not for one thing—according to the article on natural density and some other articles, it does refer to sets. So, do you still agree with 2006-you, and if so, could you help me fix the natural density article (and the other relevant articles)?

By the way, if I'm already asking for stuff—could you look at the current version of the article, criticize it, and suggest a direction for improvement (and sources that support it)?

Thanks, Professor Proof (talk) 02:36, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

@Professor Proof: Natural density can both refer to a sequence and a set, and "almost all" means natural density 1. My 2006 edit summary in [8] did not refer to the general definition of natural density. It linked to natural density and referred to the specific contents of that article at the time: [9]. I guess I was thinking about the lead and thought it might confuse readers to link the articles at the time, but I think they should be linked. I haven't examined the current content of the articles but maybe I will later. PrimeHunter (talk) 10:51, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, again, for your timely response. I'm not familiar with this definition, and I'm glad that probably isn't a problem. Professor Proof (talk) 20:49, 28 May 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

	Teahouse Barnstar
	This is for your valuable contributions related to teahouse. PATH SLOPU (Talk) 06:58, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 09:26, 2 June 2018 (UTC)

page views

Well heres how i did it. From my s7edge android I get access to more of the tools. Form there I use my xbox360 with limited options. So with those two devices I was able to get a display on top of my screen with page views, and a few other stats. i curently am locked out of my phone with no other acces to internet but an outdated internet browser on my microsoft xbox360. So on the statistics it showed nearly 500 billion page views. since i right now have no access to my smart phone and internet on it, I am at a loss as to how to get those options back at the top of my screen when veiwing any page it lists certain page statistics. Now for all those views I have next to none of any responses, and cannott find any mentions of my page DOWNToWNJIzMBROWN26. I need some advice and I always try to adress it to Yunshui first but with no smart phone im hopeless in trying to get back into my full access to those tools. And last question, is there a block or discretion on my name Jimmy Fortino Mendoza? If so how do I go about gaining access or proving which Jimmy I am, if theres othrs or somekind of block on me I dont know about. Is there any advice for me?DOWNTOWNJIzMBROWN26 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 19:43, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

I still don't know the tool you refer to. No Wikipedia page has 500 billion views. That would be 79 million per day since Wikipedia was founded in 2001. If you are on the desktop version of the site then "Page information" in the left pane will show the number of page views in the past 30 days. The only page your account has created is User:DOWNTOWNJIzMBROWN26 which currently says 69 views.[10] I don't know of any block on the name Jimmy Fortino Mendoza. If you want it in your signature again then enter it in the Signature field at Special:Preferences, but don't make a checkmark at "Treat the above as wiki markup." PrimeHunter (talk) 22:18, 3 June 2018 (UTC)

Categories in preview mode

Hi, I have another technical question. If during an edit session, I fix an error that caused the article to be included in a hidden maintenance category, should that category be removed from the list of categories displayed in the preview. If my memory is correct, I used to make a fix and check that I did it correctly by checking in preview that the category was no longer listed. But today, it seems the category is still there - I have to save the edit and then check the category list in the saved article to verify the maintenance category has been removed. Has something changed? MB 21:20, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

@MB: Preview normally shows the same categories as save whether or not they are hidden but a few things behave differently in preview and after saving, e.g. if a template tries to determine whether it's placed on a redirect and the save changes this status. You didn't name the page and category so I cannot examine your case. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:33, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

How do you view hidden categories in preview? If you use "This page is a member of N hidden categories" near the bottom of the edit window then it shows hidden categories for the last saved version and not the previewed version. I have enabled "Show hidden categories" at Special:Preferences#mw-prefsection-rendering and view "Hidden categories:" next to the normal categories. It is this feature which normally shows the same categories in preview as after saving. PrimeHunter (talk) 21:41, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

I have "Show hidden categories" enabled in my preferences. When I view an article, I see the hidden categories at the bottom after the "normal" categories. When editing, there is a section near the bottom of preview that says "This article is a member of N hidden categories" and shows the categories if you expand it. This apparently shows the categories from the last saved version of the article. At the very bottom is the normal category box which does show categories from the preview version of the article.

I have been looking at the expanded list expecting the categories to be gone and neglected to even notice the category box at the bottom. It's not that intuitive with two lists of categories that don't match, one reflecting the edited article and the other the saved verison - and no labeling. I probably won't make this mistake again. Thanks for the help. MB 22:14, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Beatlesongs Article

I added a few sources to the Wikipedia article on the Rhino Records novelty album Beatlesongs. The sources template is still there, but I don't want to take any chances of removing it without permission of anyone in charge on here. I just thought I'd let you know. The sources are from the Rutlemania site, which includes information on the album and the three page press release letter where William Stout explains why he designed the cover the way he did, which was infamous for including the man who murdered John Lennon, Mark David Chapman, who's holding the left of the "We Love You Beatles" banner and also includes that the cover was changed to the back cover photo of Beatles memorabilia. I simply thought I'd let you know. Thanks.Frschoonover (talk) 16:42, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

@Frschoonover: rutlemania.org looks like a fansite. Google didn't give results on quotes from http://www.rutlemania.org/rhpr1.html. I have added {{Unreliable sources}} instead. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:43, 10 June 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Largest cities of Scotland

Template:Largest cities of Scotland has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. --woodensuperman 15:16, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	For your amazing idea on 13:30, 12 June 2018 to use the vertical header template to make Historical rankings of presidents of the United States finally not a massive pagestretch! I mean, it wasn't a particularly DIFFICULT problem, but the idea was still brilliant. Gatemansgc (TɅ̊LK) 21:51, 19 June 2018 (UTC)

Prime?

Hi. I was checking out your user page and noticed that you linked "prime" in "about prime constellation records", but I wonder if you purposefully linked to the article about prime numbers? Thinker78 (talk) 18:51, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

@Thinker78: Yes, that was on purpose to show what "prime" was referring to. Why wouldn't it be purposefully? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:25, 4 July 2018 (UTC)

It is unclear what you mean with "prime constellation records", I thought maybe it was a record company you were trying to link to, but now that I think about it, it is not capitalized. Thinker78 (talk) 01:01, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

@Thinker78: It would have been an odd mistake to write [[prime number|prime]] if it was not about prime numbers. I never see such errors with piped links. It's a common mistake to just place link brackets like [[prime]] without checking what the target page is about (prime is a redirect to the right article for me). My site is quite nerdy and assumes knowledge of prime numbers but see http://primerecords.dk/constellations.htm if you want to know what I mean by prime constellation records. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:23, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Lol. And I thought you were talking about a music company. Hahaha. Thinker78 (talk) 05:03, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for the mammoth effort here, the finer points of templates are a bit beyond me so I really appreciate it. ...   CJ [a Kiwi] in  Oz  12:10, 5 July 2018 (UTC)

search question

Hello, is there a way to find how many articles in Category:Recipients of the Medal of Honor by war (and all the subcats) use |medal= in the infobox? MB 16:46, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

@MB: Here is a search for one category at a time: insource:/medal\s*=/ incategory:"World War II recipients of the Medal of Honor". It searches for "medal=", allowing whitespace before "=". It doesn't check whether it occurs in an infobox, and it doesn't examine whether there is a non-empty value. Category:Recipients of the Medal of Honor by branch of service has fewer subcategories to test that Category:Recipients of the Medal of Honor by war. I don't know whether there is a difference in how complete the categories are. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:16, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Thanks, that worked well enough for my purposes. MB 23:16, 12 July 2018 (UTC)

Archive list

Thank You for the help! I was wondering how it showed up. Give me a few minutes to see if I have the instructions correct so that I can make archives fir the years 2013-2016..

Roberto221 (talk) 20:29, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Thank You again for your help. I separated my talk list into specific years so I don't need the User talk:Roberto221/Archive 2012 - 2016 page anymore, that can be deleted.

Roberto221 (talk) 21:08, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

@Roberto221: You now have three archive pages in the wrong namespace at Special:PrefixIndex/User:Roberto221/ instead of Special:PrefixIndex/User talk:Roberto221/. Can I also delete them? PrimeHunter (talk) 21:52, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

OK as long as my other archive pages work. I also don't need Roberto221/Archive 1 which is the redirect to User talk:Roberto221/Archive 2012 - 2016

Roberto221 (talk) 22:09, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

@Roberto221: I have deleted the three archive pages and the redirect at User talk:Roberto221/Archive 1. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:52, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

I also don't need this page User talk:Roberto221/Archive 2012 - 2016. Thank you for all your help, it all looks cleaner

Roberto221 (talk) 22:59, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

@Roberto221: I have deleted it. You can also request deletion of userspace pages with {{db-u1}}. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:18, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

Removals at List of prime numbers

Hi there, I've noticed that you've done a fair bit of editing and discussing at the List of prime numbers. I'm sure you've got the page watchlisted, but I just wanted to give you a heads up that I've been noticing some mass removals to entries on that page. I personally am relatively unsure as to a consensus of a method to determine notability of a type of prime number, but will continue to monitor the page and assist as I can. --HunterM267 ^talk 00:19, 14 July 2018 (UTC)

Protected edit/infobox maint error

I have fixed hundreds of infobox errors in Category:Pages using infobox school with deprecated parameters and there is one left that I can't fix myself - Wikipedia:List of hoaxes on Wikipedia/Hilfiger High School. Removing |year= will clear this error and since it doesn't affect the article as displayed I see no harm. If you agree this would be acceptable please make this edit. Thanks as always. MB 01:53, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Fixed. PrimeHunter (talk) 02:14, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox box office

Template:Infobox box office has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Jc86035 (talk) 15:33, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

2019 MLB by season team template

Can you View the 2019 MLB season by team Template for me please I Would Accept that. 68.103.78.155 (talk) 23:35, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

It seems early. Are any of the team articles likely to be created with meaningful content within months? PrimeHunter (talk) 00:31, 4 August 2018 (UTC)

Please Help!

Please check my response at the Wiki HELP desk for logging in. Vmars22 (talk) 23:58, 3 August 2018 (UTC)

Thank you for all the help in regards to me contacting Wikipedia about the situation I'm in, can we remove the discussion on the wiki talk page? now that i've filed the request? 02:41, 6 August 2018 (UTC)~

@Vmars22: You can remove it if you want. PrimeHunter (talk) 09:27, 6 August 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 14:08, 21 August 2018 (UTC)

Female composers from Ukraine

Hello PrimeHunter, Can you delete it for me? And can you create the Female composers from Ukraine in the right place? I'm really lost with this. Nicola Mitchell (talk) 18:35, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

@Nicola Mitchell: I cannot delete Commons pages. Only Commons administrators can do that. The suggested G7 code to request deletion has to be posted by the author of the page. Your code on commons:Female composers from Ukraine looks right. Only the page was wrong. Simply post the same code on commons:Category:Female composers from Ukraine instead. PrimeHunter (talk) 18:44, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Okay! Thanks, it worked out like you said! Nicola Mitchell (talk) 20:55, 30 August 2018 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:2015 American film awards

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Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 08:47, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Years in science fiction

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RonBot 9

The one time run has completed. All the "bad" Bugle's have been sorted out. Your original search will still show some 24 hits - that's because they had already fixed it themselves by reversing the initial span and center tags. Ronhjones  ^(Talk) 13:27, 22 September 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks! PrimeHunter (talk) 20:55, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

How does one edit the Reference Section of the Wikipedia article?

Hello Prime Hunter,

My Wikipedia page is General Juan Francisco Morales Llerena.

Right now the first 9 references are evenly aligned on the left and are evenly aligned on the right. However, the #10 reference goes underneath an image on the left side and stops at the left margin. In other words, it does not stay lined up and squared with the other 9 references.

I cannot center the list of references between two images where one image is left=centered and the other image is right-centered. And the list of references are between the two images.

I have just about finished inputting and editing the web site, except for squarely centering the list of references.

Also, when I go to editing the list of reference, I get a message that the reference section cannot be edited with the Visual Editor and that I must edit the source code. What does

mean and how does one use it to edit the reference section when I go to the source code.

If you go to the website, you will get a better idea of what I am trying to do.

Thank you.

Bodvar Antonio Gregersen--Bodvar Antonio Gregersen (talk) 22:24, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

Continued at Wikipedia:Teahouse#I accidentally erased a code that looked like the following {{ref}} or something similar in the source code. I want to replace it. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:53, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

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Thanks a lot for your brilliant advice! I took your advice about not putting text in between two images because the text loses its format when it goes below the bottom of the images. I fixed the problem by deleting two line spaces above the images. This caused the text to fall below the two images where all the reference text was neatly displayed. All this was done in the edit mode!! Thanks, again. Bodvar Antonio Gregersen (talk) 11:47, 26 October 2018 (UTC)

I would like to add my own thanks. I followed your advice and added the link William Farrar I don't know if I will ever be able to remember all of this stuff (wife says I have sometimers, but the removal of a brain tumor and radiation hasn't helped). I do so appreciate your help.

It's humbling to be my age, and feel like I am in 5th grade again, but from what I see these days with kids age 3 programming, I just insulted 5th graders. Alvanhholmes (talk) 16:30, 15 November 2018 (UTC)

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		Thank you for being so patient and persistently helpful with Alvanhholmes. Wikipedia's accessibility is very important to me considering the community's flaws. Sincerely, Shashi Sushila Murray, (message me) 01:07, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

URL encoding

A week ago we had this conversation involving the encoding of tildes in URLs. I can now give you an actual example:
http://dag.watchduck.net/?edges=0-3~1-3~2-3&names=Huey~Dewey~Louie~non%257Econformist (Looks best in Chrome.)
You can see the relevant functions names_arr_to_str and names_str_to_arr in this file on GitHub.
I would prefer to encode the last name as non%7Econformist — if that can be treated different from non~conformist.
But my impression is, that URLs with ~ and %7E should be interchangeable. What do you think? Watchduck (quack) 18:51, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

@Watchduck: I can help with Wikipedia's software. It sounds like you want help with designing url's for your own website. I'm not an expert on that and Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing may be better. Some non-authoritative notes from me: "~" is not a reserved character so ~ and the encoded %7E should be treated the same. Using a non-reserved character as delimiter in a query string sounds problematic if you want the values to be able to contain that character. Instead you might use separate parameters like name1=Huey&name2=Dewey&name3=Louie&name4=non~conformist. You could also use a reserved character like "," as delimiter in name=Huey,Dewey,Louie,non~conformist. Then values with "," can encode the comma. For reserved characters, the encoded version is not supposed to produce the same result. I don't know whether comma or another character is best for this. Some software may encode commas when you don't want it. It's possible you can make your site and software consistent with url's like names=Huey~Dewey~Louie~non%257Econformist, but if the url's are sometimes generated or decoded by users or software outside your control then the double percent encoding may cause confusion. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:58, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

I got the meaning of reserved wrong, and thus avoided commas. Thanks for the tip. Watchduck (quack) 20:22, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

@Watchduck: Some reserved characters should not be used for this purpose. A comma may be OK but as mentioned, I'm no expert. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:46, 26 November 2018 (UTC)

Lithuania

Hi there, Lithuania today has nothing to do with eastern europe. Such opinion represents the world during the iron curtain era. No articals after that period locate lithuania in eastern europe. Today in the new age, as the UN and wiki itself!! Have stated, today’s lithuania belongs to the north Jonathan311 (talk) 23:10, 1 December 2018 (UTC)

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Help needed related to templates

I am currently a user who is trying to become active in malayalam wikisource. I have come across a problem there([link]) for which I have got a solution there. Since I don't have much knowledge regarding css, I would like to know if you can help me out by mentioning the exact page in which I need to make updations. I would also like to know who can actually create the files like mediawiki:commons.css.Adithyak1997 (talk) 10:42, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

@Adithyak1997: After a software change in 2018 (see meta:Creation of separate user group for editing sitewide CSS/JS), CSS and JS pages in the MediaWiki namespace can only be created and edited by Interface administrators at the wiki (before it was all administrators). ml wikisource does not have any.[11] Interface administrator can be granted by Bureaucrats. ml wikisource has one Manojk.[12]. MediaWiki:Common.css has ambox styling for the English Wikipedia. The code can be copied to wikisource:ml:MediaWiki:Common.css. PrimeHunter (talk) 22:37, 30 December 2018 (UTC)

@PrimeHunter:Thanks a lot.Adithyak1997 (talk) 03:54, 31 December 2018 (UTC)