User talk:Polygnotus

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double boom for WikiTextExpander!!

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holy heck I swear I had a dream about a script like this once. it's great! A feature request and an ask, though:

  1. Could you make it so WTE expands the entire editor if no text is selected and the shortcut is clicked twice "soon" (probably by setting a timer to revert a boolean "doublePress" to false in 4.8 seconds)?
  2. You may want to display a warning when both Alt and Shift are checked as this is the basis for WP:Access keys.

Aaron Liu (talk) 22:43, 11 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Aaron Liu Hmmm. Gotta think about that for a second. I also have to scrape basically everything that transcludes {{shortcut}}. Polygnotus (talk) 16:51, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
I did namedrop you over at User talk:Polygnotus/Scripts/WikiTextExpander.js. ;-) Polygnotus (talk) 17:18, 12 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ah, I didn't see that lol. Thanks! Aaron Liu (talk) 17:08, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
User:Polygnotus/shortcuts is a first step. Polygnotus (talk) 16:46, 14 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Random acronym generator when? Polygnotus (talk) 21:39, 22 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:57, 21 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery 19:29, 28 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Arthur Hastings Sloggatt moved to draftspace

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Thanks for your contributions to Arthur Hastings Sloggatt. Unfortunately, I do not think it is ready for publishing at this time because it needs more sources to establish notability, you may have a possible Conflict of Interest and one of the sources is written by the subject's son. I have converted your article to a draft which you can improve, undisturbed for a while.

Please see more information at Help:Unreviewed new page. When the article is ready for publication, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page OR move the page back. Sarsenethe/they•(talk) 11:15, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sarsenet Wrong guy. Polygnotus (talk) 11:17, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I notified you as you had moved the article from userspace to mainspace originally. Figured I'd let you know. Sarsenethe/they•(talk) 11:21, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Ok thank you. Polygnotus (talk) 11:25, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The image problem

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A cartoon image appears in the Infobox because this is still a draft, even though in the draft content the image is of him at his drafting board. It's a distraction. Consider removing the image for now, and reinserting it only after the draft is accepted. David notMD (talk) 13:36, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@David notMD It was added to Template:Infobox comics creator back in 2009. You can submit an editrequest using this link but remember to mention that they should do an insource search in the Template namespace to find more. Polygnotus (talk) 13:39, 30 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 1 May 2025

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Have at it.

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I'm posting here, per WP:TPG, as I'm not making any specific suggestions for improving the article. But regarding your comment here, I encourage you to go for it - make those improvements to the article. I've made many in the past, when the article was truly rife with WP:PROMO and WP:NOT content, and I'm happy to see other editors take a shot. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 14:14, 2 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@JoJo Anthrax Last time it didn't go so well. I didn't want to be perceived to be "taking advantage" by working on the article during the block but I was probably too kind. Oh well. Polygnotus (talk) 08:48, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah. But as I wrote, have at it! Own and all that. JoJo Anthrax (talk) 16:02, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

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Thomas_A._Cellucci "entrepreneur" in phrase "American entrepreneur" is not promotional Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 00:13, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

FYI

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https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Luis_Elizondo&diff=1288650174&oldid=1288648755

You know that template isn't needed. That page is already now drier than a dysentery victim's butt who died a thousand years ago. -- Very Polite Person (talk) 00:58, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Very Polite Person Greg Atoms is clearly not a reliable source. In BLPs we should almost exclusively use reliable sources. The location of his birth is probably not disputed and not unduly self-serving (or the opposite) so we can just use an WP:ABOUTSELF source. I assume you own his book? Polygnotus (talk) 08:57, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This says Elizondo was born in Miami, Florida. Polygnotus (talk) 09:47, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This says: Luis grew up in South Florida.
So it may be a good idea to check "Imminent". Polygnotus (talk) 09:47, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Also according to this he was born in 1972. The same year is mentioned here. Polygnotus (talk) 10:19, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Warring

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Please quit edit warring with me as you did on the Terrence Howard page. Funkykittycat (talk) 23:26, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Funkykittycat aka Gillysuitedbookworm aka Politicalscaffolder Please stop vandalising as you did at that same page. Also maybe stop socking. Polygnotus (talk) 23:27, 4 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

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Parasitic_ant "drastically" in phrase "vary drastically" is not promotional Sophisticatedevening🍷(talk) 16:28, 5 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

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Abraham_Van_Neste "revolutionary" in phrase "American revolutionary war" is not promotional Sophisticatedevening🍷(talk) 13:17, 6 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Contentious topics notification

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Information icon You have recently made edits related to the Arab–Israeli conflict. This is a standard message to inform you that the Arab–Israeli conflict is a designated contentious topic. This message does not imply that there are any issues with your editing. Additionally, editors must be logged-in, have 500 edits and an account age of 30 days, and are not allowed to make more than 1 revert on the same page within 24 hours for pages within this topic. For more information about the contentious topics system, please see Wikipedia:Contentious topics. Jclemens (talk) 00:22, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Polygnotus (talk) 00:30, 8 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery 22:35, 12 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Signpost: 14 May 2025

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Team leader

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I was made redundant after I told the companies owner that his idiocy made my position pointless. So "unruly"? yes, "pay raise"? no. -- LCU ActivelyDisinterested «@» °∆t° 21:55, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Polygnotus (talk) 21:55, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Knock it off. You're being disruptive. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 21:57, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@ScottishFinnishRadish Bit of a history to that, see here and there and that and various other places. But yeah such debates are pointless. Polygnotus (talk) 22:07, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
It's much easier to block someone for bludgeoning when there aren't others doing the same thing. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 22:10, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@ScottishFinnishRadish Good point, agreed. Polygnotus (talk) 22:14, 15 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

ww → www replacement

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Hi Polygnotus. Just letting you know that I've mass-rollbacked your 12 AWB edits changing ww to www. In the first three I looked at (Mike Tyson, Rami Malek, Sweden), your edit changed a previously working URL to a broken one. If there's any cases where your change was an improvement, please feel free to restore, but please do try to be more careful using AWB. Thanks. -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 04:47, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Tamzin I am a genius. I confused the browser window with the working URLs with the browser window with the broken URLs. D'oh! My bad, thanks for spotting it. Polygnotus (talk) 05:26, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Heh, earlier this week I had my monthly case of thinking "holy shit these sockpuppets' edits are, like, identical" before realizing that I'd opened the same tab twice. Fortunately I did catch that before I blocked, and they were socks anyways. But I have seen at least one case where someone got blocked based on a CU comparing a set of results to itself. 😬 The perils of tabs... -- Tamzin[cetacean needed] (they|xe|🤷) 05:52, 16 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery 23:10, 19 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reporting DetectPromo false-positive

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Zo_nationalism "revolutionary" in phrase "zomi revolutionary army" is not promotional Flyingphoenixchips (talk) 02:22, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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MediaWiki message delivery 20:02, 26 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wikidata weekly summary #681

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DuplicateReferences question

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Hi Polygnotus, is it possible to override the automatic edit summary when using your script? I was thinking of using something like: Tagged duplicate citations using DuplicateReferences Nobody (talk) 12:37, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@1AmNobody24: Sure, see here. Polygnotus (talk) 12:46, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! Nobody (talk) 12:48, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Not sure if you have a bugtracker, but it just did this. Nobody (talk) 13:29, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Hm, I should look into the morebits template insertion logic, one sec. Polygnotus (talk) 13:39, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
@1AmNobody24 I am now using the Wikipedia:Morebits template insertion logic, which should work now. Polygnotus (talk) 13:47, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for the quick fix. Nobody (talk) 13:48, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Yeah it was already on the todolist but I hadn't gotten around to it yet. Polygnotus (talk) 13:50, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Continued at MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-morebits.js#Morebits_and_MOS:ORDER. Polygnotus (talk) 21:50, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Helping Hand Barnstar
Thanks so much for going through those article issues with me on my talk page! As a new Wikipedian, it really helped to receive such good constructive criticism on these articles and make the fixes that I had to. Keep up the good work! Reverosie (talk) 19:45, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you @Reverosie! I always learn a lot from typofixing and discover all kinds of interesting articles. Polygnotus (talk) 20:09, 28 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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The Barnstar of Good Humor
Please stop. From kitty litter, to just refusing to let someone retire, to toilet paper orientation (for the record, it's over. And yes that's WP:NPOV because WP:FACTS). You have no right to make my day that much. Cheers, GoldRomean (talk) 00:12, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, I now have to know whether you're named after the painter, crater, or disambiguation page. Or something else. GoldRomean (talk) 00:15, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Thank you! The 'over' method is superior because it doubles as a cat toy. I now have to know whether you're named after the painter, crater, or disambiguation page. I am named after the Wikipedia user of that name. Polygnotus (talk) 03:09, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]