User talk:Ferien/Archives/2021/June

Latest comment: 3 years ago by つがる in topic UK Weather

RfA

Did you want to be nominated for adminship? C4Bomb2024 Talk 10:19, 1 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

@C4Bomb2024: Hi. Thanks for the nomination but I was thinking about running for adminship in a few months at the very earliest so I don't think I'm going to accept. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 11:40, 1 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Ok, I’m good with that then. C4Bomb2024 Talk 11:57, 1 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@C4Bomb2024: I have declined the nomination. Thank you for nominating me but I don't think I'm ready just yet. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 14:50, 1 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Ok. C4Bomb2024 Talk 15:33, 1 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
And your account is globally locked now... --Ferien (talk) 07:06, 2 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Ferien Dang man! Lol PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 07:08, 2 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
it would have been very awkward if I had accepted an RfA nomination from a now globally locked user... --Ferien (talk) 16:39, 2 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
I hear ya man! PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 16:39, 2 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
LOL HAPPY JUNE 2! PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 07:11, 2 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Oof. I also saw a help request like this in my talk page. Would it also be awkward to see a comment in WP:RFP/R from him? Darubrub (Let me know) 15:40, 4 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

(talk page stalker) @Darubrub I would say yes. Unfortunately it does not carry any weight. But then again, it is not a consensus vote, it is an admin decision. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 16:00, 4 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
It's annoying but, as PotsdamLamb says, it's admins that make the final decision and so it shouldn't have an impact. --Ferien (talk) 16:58, 4 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Question related to a wikipedia article

Hello sir, I want to ask if this page is allowed to be kept when its already deleted and salted form main wikipedia after it was proved that articles about subject are paid. Check this and and this. I see the same page active under different languages as well without any notability. JAHANZAIBARIF (talk) 21:56, 4 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

(talk page stalker) @JAHANZAIBARIF I am in agreement with it being deleted on the other wikis. It is not notable. All of the links are dead that would show any notoriety. I have nominated it for deletion. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 22:17, 4 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@PDL Ok sir. Please fix the User talk link in your comment for quick deletion. Thanks JAHANZAIBARIF (talk) 22:37, 4 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@JAHANZAIBARIF There is no talk link in the QD notice, so I am not sure what you are referring to. If you click on my name in the notice, it will take you to my page, which is what it is supposed to do. PDLTalk to me!OMG, What have I done? 22:45, 4 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

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The article seems to have been deleted. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 07:40, 5 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-23

Headquarters

Turns out, it's even stranger than I thought! The infoboxes were copied from the English Wikipedia, so the "misinformation" came from there. In fact, if you look at the Serbian Wikipedia article and check the English one, you'll see that it also has the same fake headquarters writing (I'll bring that up to ENWiki editors, so you might have to check the page's history if it gets removed). Cheers! Etoza (?) 18:59, 7 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Etoza: Hmm, that's interesting. If you go to w:Wikimedia Foundation and Ctrl+F "miami" you won't find anything so as you said it must have been some sort of factual error vandalism that we copied across... Thanks! --Ferien (talk) 19:54, 7 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

20:03, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Apology

Hi Ferien, Just wanted to apologise for earlier - I didn't realise the article had an infobox otherwise I wouldn't of reverted you so sorry for that, Thank you for adding the updated version and thank you for your contributions to the project too :), Take care and stay safe, Warm Regards, –Davey2010Talk 22:43, 8 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Davey2010: No worries. :) Regards, --Ferien (talk) 05:37, 9 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Empty maintenance categories

You do not have to put QD requests on the empty maintenance categories. QD requests will appear on those automatically. I know someone (you?) recently said they weren't seeing them, but when I went to process them I saw both your requests and the automatically generated ones. --Auntof6 (talk) 07:57, 9 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Oh, that's strange. I went into a completely different browser and loaded the CAT:QD page and it didn't appear. I will just stop tagging those now. --Ferien (talk) 10:16, 9 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
{{Subst:Ferien}} Bravo my chap but it was probably deleted... 2600:387:6:80F:0:0:0:75 (talk) 00:05, 10 June 2021 (UTC)...Reply
The category? That was not deleted when I checked. It is some sort of issue on my side I think. --Ferien (talk) 17:58, 10 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

New barnstar

  The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
Thank you for adding categories to my pages that i made. You're a very good and nice person here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:444:201:9e70:7da3:653d:403c:791c (talkcontribs) 17:56, 10 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much for the barnstar :) No problem for adding the categories. --Ferien (talk) 17:58, 10 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

20:26, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

Comments on RfD pages

It is not necessary to comment "remember that this is not a vote" on RfD discussions. The closing admin can see that the person didn't give any particular reason, and they will take that into account. --Auntof6 (talk) 23:17, 14 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Ok, I just wanted to let them know that RfDs are not a vote for future discussions. --Ferien (talk) 05:39, 15 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Protection

I saw my sandbox has been vandalized 3 times. Can I protect the sandbox from being edited by anonymous and users who arnt extended confirmed? Haoreima (talk) 20:03, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Haoreima: We don't have extended confirmed protection/users on this wiki. However, as User:Haoreima/sandbox is in your user subpage, you can request for it to be semi-protected, so IPs and users with under 10 edits can't edit it. You can request semi-protection on User:Haoreima/sandbox on the administrators' noticeboard or on an admin's talk page. Semi-protection should be enough protection for your sandbox. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 20:08, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
What happened to your talk page? All the talks are gone under a hidden way! Seems unusual like before. Haoreima (talk) 20:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: I archived it in late April. I also changed the font to Calibri. Can you explain what you mean by "All the talks are gone under a hidden way!"? --Ferien (talk) 20:38, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Your talk page looks exactly similar to that of MacDonald Ross. It's explicitly different from mine, or others'. If you change your desktop view edition to mobile view edition, it's clearly visible that all the talks (not so archived till now) we're all hidden under the column "Add new discussion". It's only after pressing the long blue color button "Read as Wikipedia page", I can see all the hidden talks, even this current one. For better knowledge, compare yours with mine. Haoreima (talk) 20:53, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: I see what you mean. How odd. I haven't changed anything to make it like that. Was it readable without having to press "Read as wiki page" before? --Ferien (talk) 20:56, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
No, everything remains hidden until I press the button. Haoreima (talk) 21:12, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Ok, @Haoreima: have you ever been able to read talk page messages of mine without pressing "Read as wiki page"? I recall being able to on my phone recently. --Ferien (talk) 21:13, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Till yesterday, everything was fine. I regularly look at your talk page even when I don't talk with you. It's only today, everything got mess up. As of now, without pressing the button, I can't see or read. Haoreima (talk) 21:21, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Your case is slightly different from MacDonald Ross'. In his, two talks are already seen. But within the second one, a lot of talks are still hidden. But in your case, seems like there's no talk active in the page. Because all are hidden. Haoreima (talk) 21:24, 16 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
One thing I can suggest you is to check the entire content of this very talk page, from A to Z (including even a single template or a tag). That will really help you to understand what is wrong with the page! Edit history check up will also be helpful. Haoreima (talk) 05:54, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
I revert all vandalism on the page and the top, apart from the font code addition, is the same. Let me see what happens when I remove the font. --Ferien (talk) 05:55, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: Seems like the font must have confused the mobile site! You can see all topics without pressing "Read as wiki page" now. --Ferien (talk) 05:56, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Belwine! See everyone got fine now within a few seconds (after your last reply). Check yourself through mobile view edition. Have you done something? Haoreima (talk) 05:57, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: Yep, I removed the font. That seemed to confuse the mobile site. --Ferien (talk) 05:58, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Oh yes! Everything's fine now. My last reply was published within a fraction of seconds just after yours. LOL! Haoreima (talk) 05:59, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Once again! See yours:-05:56, mine:-05:57 again yours:-05:58, mine:-05:59 very interesting. Haoreima (talk) 06:01, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
I have a little confusion. Is England currently in day or night? My place is currently a mid day! Haoreima (talk) 06:20, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: Day, it's the morning and it's currently 7:22am. --Ferien (talk) 06:22, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

7:22 am! Mine is 11:52 am. Very interesting! Haoreima (talk) 06:23, 17 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

It's almost one whole day passed after I request for protection of my sandbox in the administrators' noticeboard. But no response is seen. What best can I do? Haoreima (talk) 20:55, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: The only advice I have is just wait for an admin to respond. Eventually, an admin will protect your page. --Ferien (talk) 20:57, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
One thing I noticed frequently is that when a vandal commit vandalism on multiple pages including my sandbox and other articles, bots or admins revert their actions in the article pages but left my sandbox unreverted (when I ain't active in Wikipedia). What do you think? Is this based on the personal thinking of the very users? Haoreima (talk) 21:02, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: Maybe they just don't notice the vandalism in your sandbox, they won't just leave it on purpose. --Ferien (talk) 21:06, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Till now, it's only you who noticed vandalism on my related pages. Thanks for reply. Haoreima (talk) 21:09, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: Auntof6 has now protected your user page. --Ferien (talk) 21:28, 18 June 2021 (UTC)Reply


About Neptune

Good day! Can you check the article about Neptune and leave a comment? Appreciate it.Thank you in advance. Frontfrog (talk) 19:54, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

@Frontfrog: Ok. I'll have a look at it. I'm not the best at reviewing potential GAs but I'll try! --Ferien (talk) 20:14, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Frontfrog:   Done! Thanks for your work on the article, it's looking great. :D --Ferien (talk) 20:59, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thank you so much too for your comment! Frontfrog (talk) 05:44, 20 June 2021 (UTC)Reply


Kimono

Do you think it is ready to be nominated for GA? --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:07, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

I just took a quick look at it; I think it's good but not ready for GA yet. The language is simple which is great but as the tag says, I think it needs a few more sources. The potential is definitely there though :) --Ferien (talk) 21:11, 19 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-24

New article

Hello pal! I want en:List of Manipuri kings to be written in simple wiki too. Since the article is about the list of names, do we still need it to be simplified? Or, can we just copy and paste it? Haoreima (talk) 12:58, 21 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

And what about en:Template:Kingdom of Manipur? Haoreima (talk) 13:11, 21 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
No. You should not copy and paste it for a couple of reasons:
  1. Copyright - although you can attribute it in the edit summary
  2. The fact that simple wiki is meant to be written in Simple English and normal wikipedia isn't written in simple english
  3. Avoid just listing names, as this wiki isn't solely a wiki for lists
Hope this helps. SHB2000 (talk) 14:15, 21 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: I had a look at w:List of Manipuri kings. It shouldn't be copy and pasted completely. I feel like all sections apart from the lead and Burmese rule could be copy and pasted without simplification. For the other sections, I think simplification is necessary. You'll need to remember attribution, though.
@SHB2000: Sometimes, stubs on enwiki can actually be simple enough and A3 requests can be denied if this is the case. A3 is for copy and pastes from enwiki that are complex.
There have been occasions where I have only needed to make a couple of adjustments to a copy of an enwiki article before publishing it here. For example, List of postcode districts in the United Kingdom.
Hope this helps,
--Ferien (talk) 14:53, 21 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

15:49, 21 June 2021 (UTC)

British English

I don't find any difference between English and British English in the wikipedia user language settings. Now, I have set mine in British English. Do you find any difference? Haoreima (talk) 07:11, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Hi Haoreima, this is probably because only the interface is changed into British English, not the article. Also in the interface I can't imagine there being many differences between American and British English, which is probably why you can't notice it. Best regards,--Ferien (talk) 09:09, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Hello pal! I have started editing in wiki data. Now, I am connecting some pages at inter wiki. Please check if I am doing right or wrong! Thank you. Haoreima (talk) 18:02, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: Yep, they seem fine. Just some advice though: you don't need to spend time adding the Simple English descriptions, labels and aliases. I believe people reading in Simple English get the English descriptions, labels and aliases automatically. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 18:05, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Why so? I mean if simple English description isn't added, and if general English description is added only, then will the description appear in the simple English wikipedia article? Haoreima (talk) 18:09, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: I've tried viewing Wikidata pages in Simple English before. If there isn't a Simple English description, alias or label then the English one will appear. I can only assume that if you viewed short descriptions here it would take the English one on Wikidata. You can add the Simple English descriptions if you want, you just don't need to. Regards, --Ferien (talk) 18:13, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thank you. Haoreima (talk) 18:17, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
And, I am happy that I will no longer disturb you for the connection, except for some suggestions. Cheers! Haoreima (talk) 18:21, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: Still, if you need any help with Wikidata, please let me know. I'll be happy to help. :) --Ferien (talk) 19:02, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Pal! This https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107316443 I created but another already existed in the name "Eputhou Thangjing". What shall we do? Haoreima (talk) 04:24, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: I have merged the two items. --Ferien (talk) 05:44, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Thanks but I want to create an item for Thangjing (disambiguation)=mni:ꯊꯥꯡꯆꯤꯡ. What about this? Haoreima (talk) 06:06, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: Ok, you can create a new item to link them together, as a disambiguation page on Wikipedia. You can put the description in English as Wikimedia disambiguation page. --Ferien (talk) 06:09, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
But one thing, wiki data item for templates on wikipedia are asked to link at least 3 connections. What about minimum no. for disambiguation? Haoreima (talk) 06:11, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Haoreima: I'm not aware of a minimum number of connections for disambiguation pages. I think the minimum amount of pages that need to be connected on any Wikidata item is one zero as many Wikidata items don't have any connections to pages on Wikipedia. --Ferien (talk) 06:14, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
(talk page stalker) I believe you are correct. I believe Wikidata is meant to be a general database of knowledge, not just for Wikimedia projects. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Auntof6 (talkcontribs) 06:15, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Yeah, if you go to wikidata:Special:Random and open up several pages, you'll find a majority of them don't have links to any Wikimedia project. --Ferien (talk) 16:10, 23 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
(talk page stalker) Setting the MediaWiki Interface to British English just changes the links on your end. It does not affect the page content or article content being displayed. --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 03:06, 24 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thank you

Thank you for all the housekeeping you've been doing! I recognise your work. Cheers Hockeycatcat (talk) 09:17, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the message Hockeycatcat! Happy to help :) --Ferien (talk) 10:20, 22 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

humility

or

I saw no bug in this wiki. Then, I am confused why there's malfunctioning in the mni wiki template. Haoreima (talk) 07:05, 24 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Well, as you don't see neither dot nor question mark, what do you see? Haoreima (talk) 07:07, 24 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Haoreima Sorry I meant to say I saw the box with the ? in it. See mni, it seems to be fixed now. --Ferien (talk) 15:28, 24 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

Wikipedia translation of the week: 2021-26

16:32, 28 June 2021 (UTC)

Barnstar of kindness

  The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
For the obvious. :) ~StyyxTalk? ^-^ 16:59, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@Styyx: Thank you very much :) --Ferien (talk) 17:42, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply

UK Weather

  • How is the weather in UK? In Vancouver, it's a bit hotter than normal (~50 degrees Celsius), but at least not as bad as Tokyo! --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 20:41, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    @つがる: The weather has actually been worse than recently today (but still not that bad), it was quite rainy this morning but the rest of the day has been ok. However, for most of this June, the UK's had great weather (for once!..), it has been really nice and sunny. According to the BBC, we should get back over 20°C by Wednesday and Thursday. Hopefully, I can go out for a long bike ride next weekend now mine's repaired and the weather's good too :) --Ferien (talk) 20:51, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
    Tokyo has a lot of rain but it still seems warmer than the weather we have most of the time over here. You're very lucky with all that sun! --Ferien (talk) 21:00, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
For me, I cannot ride bikes, I used to go to wally world and ride the little kids bikes with training wheels, and get kicked out of the bike section. In Tokyo, it's hot but it feels very stuffy, not like Vancouver, where it's just hot --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:03, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Oh, and I prefer rainy, stormy, gloomy days, over the sun. Sorry if I seem weird! --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:08, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
@つがる: Oh, the reason I enjoy riding bikes is because I'm not really good at any other form of exercise or sport :P About enjoying rainy days: Meh, it depends how I feel. Sometimes rainy days can be fun; although even if you don't find them fun, you kind of have to get used to them over here because there are so many of them! --Ferien (talk) 21:28, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
Yea I am not good at sports either! At school, we have PE class in the rain all year long! --Tsugaru Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:58, 28 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
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