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Create Page:Oscareduardo10

Hola, será que puedes crear la página de Oscareduardo10 en Misplaced Pages english 179.1.110.84 (talk) 23:48, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

You could start by addressing the reasons why you were blocked at User talk:Oscareduardo10. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 14:09, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

CS1 error on Battle of Zhovnyn (1662)

Hello, I'm Qwerfjkl (bot). I have automatically detected that this edit performed by you, on the page Battle of Zhovnyn (1662), may have introduced referencing errors. They are as follows:

• A "missing title" error. References show this error when they do not have a title. Please edit the article to add the appropriate title parameter to the reference. (Fix | Ask for help)

Please check this page and fix the errors highlighted. If you think this is a false positive, you can report it to my operator. Thanks, Qwerfjkl (bot) (talk) 16:33, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

NFL lists sidebar

Hello, and I'd ask that you please reverse your 'delete' and Keep this sidebar navbox. It seems every argument used against it, including the nom, was the fact that it existed (i.e. that sidebar navboxes duplicate some of the items used in footer navboxes). This doesn't work, as sidebar navboxes are allowed, and hundreds of them exist on Misplaced Pages. Please read the discussion again, there was actually no argument that makes sense if the existence of sidebar navboxes is allowed, which it is. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 15:44, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

Randy Kryn, I re-read the discussion, and the argument was that every page using the sidebar was already using a footer navbox, and people felt that was excessive/redundant navigation. If you would like a review of my close of this discussion, please open one at WP:DRV and ping me. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 14:38, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Hello, thanks for re-reading. I would say most major pages with sidebars also have footers which contain within them the same information. In this case, and most of the others, specific information is pulled out and presented in a concise format. That's the important difference. See biographical navboxes, such as those of Martin Luther King, some U.S. presidents, etc., which have both sidebars and footers. Editors may be told in a nom that this is redundant and sway editors to say "yes, it is, that's in the footer", but for site consistency the use of sidebar navboxes is accepted and common. Maybe a review yet this seems obvious when the wider and consistent site-usage exists. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:47, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

There is history of sidebars being deleted at TFD when they are an exact (or near exact) copy (or subset) of the links in a navbox footer. Some examples I found are here, here, and the long series starting here. There are also some that closed as no consensus like here. Sidebars are considered on a case-by-case basis. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 14:55, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the research. In some forms to be a Wikipedian is to be fine with time sinks, so thank you for putting up with questions and concerns like mine. It was such a good navbox and so easy to use, check, and navigate from article to article. I at least have a personal copy, but I bet hundreds of readers are going to miss it (maybe not, I could be an outlier). Randy Kryn (talk) 15:05, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Subst wrapper

Hi Plastic. This is really neat. Will this approach work for other wrapper templates, and is this method documented anywhere? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:54, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

MSGJ, I don't know about the extent of the documentation. This approach is used in several foreign language citation templates like Template:Cite web/Russian. For infoboxes, there is Module:Unsubst-infobox used in Template:Infobox album and Template:Infobox settlement/cleaner. There are many more examples, but no documented list as far as I know. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 14:35, 21 February 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. I tried to replicate it on Template:WIR but the bot is adding a subst parameter (e.g. ). Do you know how to avoid this? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:40, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Never mind, think I've sorted it! I was wondering what the override flag was for — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:45, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for spotting my Redlink

I'd copied and pasted to edit a stub category, and unfortunately, I copied without the first letter. Uporządnicki (talk) 16:48, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

"John Ryerson (tennis)"

Today I saw that my latest (end of day 2/28/24) revision on the article referenced here which seemed to have been accepted seem to have been published, checking at the https://en.wikipedia.org/John_Ryerson_(tennis), had been completely replaced with the original. What happened? Was my latest revision rejected. after all? Was did some unauthorized person hack into my account and reverse what I had done, a thought carefully following at the rules. Overnight, I thought about making a further revision, but am stuck now, wondering how to proceed. Please advise, if possible. Geo Rye (talk) 17:00, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Typos fixed: ...rejected after all?

Did some authorized person...I thought carefully following all the rules? Geo Rye (talk) 17:03, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Geo Rye, looking at your version of the article, there is this large block in the reference section that says Template:Chicago Tribune, 1960, May 14, Sat • Page 56 Template:Chicago Tribune, 1910, May 17, Tue, Page 1 Template:Https://www.usopen.org/en US/visit/history/mdchamps.html Template:Tournaments: Western States - Western Championships". The Tennis Base. Tennismem SL. Retrieved August 7, 2023 Template:Chicago Tribune, 1910, May 17, Tue, Page 1 Template:Chicago Tribune, 1914, Oct 15, Thu • Page 13 Template:Chicago Tribune, 1910, May 17, Tue, Page 1. The repeated Template: means you are not adding references correctly. That is certainly fixable, but you have also removed a large amount of reference material related to his documented suicide. I suggest you ask for assistance at WP:Teahouse, they can help you with formatting the references and incorporating new referenced material with removing the old material. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ 14:34, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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