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Tool for formatting citations

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It's User:Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy_citations.js but it doesn't fix a few fields, notably |access-date, |archive-url, and |url-access; I still have to do those by hand. And you have to turn off the 'syntax highlighting' blue pen before you click "tidy". Abductive (reasoning) 20:43, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Abductive, works perfectly. – Mesidast (talk) (contribs) 15:22, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Welcome to The Wikipedia Adventure!

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Special:WantedTemplates

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Hi, I have been cleaning up Special:WantedTemplates and noticed that your javascript page is showing up in Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Crammed. This is because the backend software is parsing the curly braces as templates. An easy way to fix this is to put

// <nowiki>

at the top of your script, and

// </nowiki>

at the bottom of your script. This won't impact the functionality, since they are in javascript comments, but will remove the pages from Special:WantedTemplates. Thanks in advance for your help! Plastikspork ―Œ(talk) 15:47, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@Plastikspork That's the tags added now, sorry for the bother. – Mesidast (talk) 16:00, 26 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Lodgement of reference to Algae - Hardy & Guiry. Rathlin. Will be grateful if you would check that I have entered this correctly.

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Reference. to Rathlin Island - Morton1945 (talk) 20:43, 15 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Morton1945, thanks for the notification. Your edit was good and for a plaintext reference it had everything it needed. I only converted it to the template format to make it easier for bots to run maintenance on it and to more standardise it. If you want a handy way to generate the template references yourself, see RefToolbar.
One piece of advice just would be that if the reference is at the end of a sentence, make sure the period (.) comes before the reference as shown in the following example: Use Test 1.[1] instead of Test 2[1].Mesidast (talk) 10:35, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks' - RefToolbar - looks complex, will have to read and try to understand! Understand (.) but surprised I was wrong here. Morton1945 (talk) 15:39, 16 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  1. ^ a b Test

I've reverted your gross breach of WP:CITEVAR. Please read and follow this policy. Johnbod (talk) 22:27, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah apologies @Johnbod, I had thought that policy only applied to citations already using a template not plaintext refs. Oh well, live and learn, hopefully this edit is more acceptable. – Mesidast (talk) 10:42, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Sorting categories

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Hi, I wonder whether sorting categories alphabetically is a generally good idea? It might be a good solution for articles with lots of categories, but perhaps not when categories are fewer. I usually try to sort categories such that they are in logical blocks, when possible, and respecting some discipline-specific patterns. For example, in the tree of life articles, the first category usually is the taxonomic parent. "Animals described in ..." and "Taxa named by ...." should logically be placed next to each other because they both refer to describing the species. In articles about living people, the first two categories are usually the birth year and "Living people". Sorting alphabetically breaks all this. Cheers, Micromesistius (talk) 20:39, 18 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Micromesistius, in the realm of taxonomy I will defer to your higher level of expertise and your explanation does make sense. Sorting them is mostly an occasional habit I've fallen into after a few times looking for a category in a partially sorted list and not seeing it initially due to it not being in the order and also from seeing a few other FA editors do it on occasion as well. I can revert those specific changes on Ashy flycatcher if you wish. Thanks, – Mesidast (talk) 08:40, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Great, thanks. It is not a big deal at the level of any single article (few readers probably notice), but I would just avoid sorting as the default action. – Cheers, 11:39, 19 September 2023 (UTC) Micromesistius (talk) 11:39, 19 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 23

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25

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