User talk:Hiàn/Archive4

Bold claim/neutral article?

What's neutral about an article that treats people's claims that they are being discriminated against as undebatable?...I don't think that anyone in favor of policies transgender activists complain about thinks those policies are a matter of discrimination against people rather than equal application of standards to all people.--12.144.5.2 (talk) 00:17, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

I don't believe for a single instant that it's within anyone's bounds to argue that all people against transsexualism believe in what you added to the article (that is very firmly not a fact). While I see this as an important point to note in the article - that some people disagree with how it's acceptance should be pushed - I neither find the wording of the addition neutral nor sourced. Please tread a little more carefully with a topic of this nature. Hiàn (talk) 00:34, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

There is nothing neutral about the article as long as it implies outright that to view acceptance of transsexualism negatively is necessarily to be prejudiced against people rather than to disagree about practices.How would you word acknowledgement that people disagree about this neutrally?--12.144.5.2 (talk) 00:49, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

I don't believe it's in my place to decide that, considering I'm not keen on getting involved in a topic like this. I would start at least, with an acknowledgement that certain people disagree over these practices, and with a reliable, third-party source. Hiàn (talk) 00:54, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

A general statement is more useful than any particular source and any particular source will find itself criticized.(This is one of my biggest beefs with wikiculture:when information is ubiquitous in nature the selection of any specific source to be what is cited constitutes an act of bias and is entirely a bad thing for the article).From lesbian radfems to religious rightwingers (I am neither!) advocacy for negative policies toward trans identities is based on criticism of practices as unreasonable for any person.A person attached to those practices frequently takes the criticism of their practices as a personal affront but the motives of the critic are not (to the critic at least) rarely what the person taking offense at the criticism asserts.Quoting a radfem or a bible-thumper would in each case invite ascribing those particular details to all critics.--12.144.5.2 (talk) 01:12, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

user-en-N

For the babel, If I spoke English from birth do I put the EN-N (Native English) template --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 17:51, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Generally that's how the template works, yeah. Hiàn (talk) 17:53, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Yea, I get confused between en-4 and en-n --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 17:54, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Not a problem. Let me know if you have any more questions. Hiàn (talk) 17:54, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

I requested patroller rights at rfpp, do you think I would get declined? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 17:56, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

I'm not an admin, so I'm not really keen on speculating how things might go for you unfortunately. Hiàn (talk) 17:57, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

I like that pic on your user page, How do you get it? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 17:58, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

The image in question is File:Tokyo (15642193413).jpg. As for how I found it, I remember poking around Category:Night in Shinjuku at Commons. Hiàn (talk) 18:09, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

Page

I found this

Shinjuku, Japan (Unsplash LrBQ3SBGkhA)

picture, and want to use it in the background of my userpage to make it look like yours? How to do that? is it possible to also use image 2

Image 2

in my talk page as the background? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:03, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Try taking a look at User:Hiàn/userpage and adjusting the code as necessary. If you run into problems, then we can troubleshoot later. Hiàn (talk) 01:20, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

THESE IMAGES ARE SO FREAKING GOOD I CANNOT DECIDE WHICH ONE TO USE!!! --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:25, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

'tis the power of decent colour grading. Hiàn (talk) 01:28, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

User:Thegooduser/userpage I messed it up... does not work :( --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:33, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Try transcluding the page somewhere. It shouldn't show up on that page. Hiàn (talk) 02:05, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

I did it! --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:16, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

Well, there we go. Hiàn (talk) 02:20, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

"When you use the thumbnail and not the image... --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:24, 8 April 2020 (UTC)

"Japanese squirrels live on the main island of Honshu, Japan. They are locally extinct in Hokkaido"

If you can find a source for it, that would be great. Making a dyk for this --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:36, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

I'll keep an eye out for one. Hiàn (talk) 00:38, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

@Thegooduser: I'm unable to find any scholarly articles that describe what you've quoted above. Other than a very brief mention in a decade-old paper, I'm afraid there are no English-language sources of use I could find. Hiàn (talk) 00:50, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Where is that decade old paper? If it's Japanese I can understand basic hiragana (such as shi, no, tsu, etc) --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:51, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Check your email. I've sent you a link to the PDF. I didn't bother with the Japanese language sources (my Japanese is ridiculously rusty, and I don't suppose you know academic kanji) though I'm sure there may be something of use there. Hiàn (talk) 00:59, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

link timed out, can you give me a screenshot of the pdf/link? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:02, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry about that, should've guessed that would've happened. This should be the proper link. Hiàn (talk) 01:04, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Is that article not a reliable source? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:07, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

It gives solely a passing mention without an explanation for the lack of S. lis in Hokkaidō and thus does not prove the species went locally extinct there - only that it cannot be found there. Hiàn (talk) 01:09, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Ah. Do you have access to The Wikipedia Library --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:10, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

I don't, unfortunately. Hiàn (talk) 01:11, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

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found this one haven't read through all of it yet --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:13, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

It does not assert that S. lis is locally extinct in Hokkaidō. Truthfully, TGU, I suggest you drop this. I've rejected all the English language sources on the first five pages of the link I sent you. Hiàn (talk) 01:15, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

yea, Gonna Ditch this, and do a dyk on something else. thanks for your help though. --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:17, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Let me know if you need anything else. Hiàn (talk) 01:18, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

You speak hiragana? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:23, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

I can read all hiragana + most katakana + the kanji that have similar meanings in Chinese. Hiàn (talk) 01:24, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Ri and Ro and mu are the hardest to remember? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:26, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Well it takes practice. Keep at it and you'll eventually get it. Hiàn (talk) 01:27, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

For some reason When I click on "show any page" it's mostly Wikipedia Japanese Related Articles strange --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:38, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Chishima Islands dispute

should it just be 'geo-stub" instead of "Japan stub" to keep it neutral?--Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 01:53, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Taking a look. Hiàn (talk) 02:05, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

Numbering fix on RFA

There's another way I've seen it done, but that worked, so thanks! --Auntof6 (talk) 05:01, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Ah perfect. Hiàn (talk) 16:57, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

A barnstar for you

		The Original Barnstar
		Hello, nice to meet you, This is for your valuable efforts for contributing to Wikipedia. --Eyatu Ben (talk) 08:15, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you @Eyatu Ben: I appreciate it :-) Hiàn (talk) 14:32, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Not at all @Hiàn: , --Eyatu Ben (talk) 12:41, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Loreen

how to fix the date error here? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:04, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Looks like the template wasn't a fan of 01 being used instead of 1 as a day value. Hiàn (talk) 21:08, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

ah. is there a page that teaches how to fix these? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:09, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Try en:Help:Citation Style 1 for general cite fixes and en:MOS:DATEFORMAT for the more nuanced date bits. Hiàn (talk) 21:11, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Thank you, (or as I should say Thank You Simple English Wikipedia Admin)! --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:14, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

Not so soon lol. Hiàn (talk) 21:15, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

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Well now you're an admin! :-D --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 15:55, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

After reverting vandalism

When you revert vandalism, please be sure to leave a warning for the person who did the vandalism. If you had left warnings for user Moneyballer123 for each of the reverts you did on his changes, we could have blocked him by now as a vandalism-only account. --Auntof6 (talk) 04:14, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry about that Auntof6. In hindsight I should've probably left a higher-tiered warning, but I'll note that the reverts were done all at once and I didn't find it constructive to (1) put multiple warnings at once nor (2) escalate immediately to uw-4. Hiàn (talk) 04:16, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

Leavng the lower-level warning was good, and leaving multiple warnings would be fine. Leaving a level 3 or 4 warning to start doesn't give the user as much time to see that they need to stop what they're doing. --Auntof6 (talk) 17:16, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

ref

did I do it right? [1] --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:19, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Definitely looks like an improvement. Just try to make sure you don't have too many blank parameters to reduce clutter. Hiàn (talk) 02:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

What do you mean by parameter? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:32, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Never mind, know what you mean. I did not make those paramaters --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:33, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

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Can I get rid of the spaces by backspacing them? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:33, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

On the parameters, looks like one of the downsides of the visual editor. As for the spaces, I'm afraid you might have to clarify what you mean by that. Hiàn (talk) 02:35, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Oh, this is different, parameters in the references? I don't know what you mean by that. I thought you meant spaces --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:36, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Sorry about that, should've clarified that. In any case, looks like the fixes are more or less fine. The extra parameters are more of a cosmetic change in the source editor so it's not a massive issue. Hiàn (talk) 02:40, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

got it --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

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Does AWB do this for you? how does it work there? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 02:41, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Not as familiar with AWB as others; I recall seeing a "general fix" tick box that might do the trick but don't quite remember. Fortunately DJSasso has a few scripts that streamline the process significantly: take a look at User:Djsasso/MOSNUM dates.js and User:Djsasso/Sources.js if you're interested. Hiàn (talk) 02:54, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

ref

hope i fixed them correctly here --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 16:30, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Looks good. Would be nice to have a consistent date format throughout the article, but that's not too major an issue. Hiàn (talk) 17:37, 24 April 2020 (UTC)

Category:CS1 errors: dates

How do I remove a article that is fixed from this category? Or does it remove itself? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:48, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Just purge the cache if everything's fixed and it'll remove itself. Hiàn (talk) 22:37, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

ok --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 22:37, 25 April 2020 (UTC)

Successful RfA

Congratulations of your Successful RfA. Please remember never to delete the Main Page, as many a crat prior me has warned, and even provided a link a time of two out of fun has done. I won't do that to you. Here is your complementary t-shirt, for all your future efforts. -- Enfcer (talk) 03:25, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Thanks Enfcer, and cheers to everyone for their support. I look forward to serving you all. Hiàn (talk) 03:26, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Welcome! Vermont (talk) 03:52, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations :) Camouflaged Mirage (talk) 08:14, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Congrats --DannyS712 (talk) 08:18, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Congrats on successful adminship! --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 15:10, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Cheers everyone! Hiàn (talk) 15:53, 28 April 2020 (UTC)

Congratulations! I hope you enjoy your Admin rights! Arthurfan828 - CHAT 17:04, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

flood flag question

Sometimes I plan the same, to fix cite errors, can flood flag be given for only 10 minutes, if that's how long I plan to do it for in these situations? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 19:52, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

It's technically possible but generally bad practice to assign for so short a time period. Hiàn (talk)_{/editing on mobile account.} 19:54, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

What's the minimum period? I don't want to spam recent changes with fixing references, but I probably can't do it for a long period of time --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 19:57, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

There's nothing explicitly defined in policy, but I suggest 1-3 hour runs at a time. Hiàn (talk)_{/editing on mobile account.} 20:03, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Will it inconvenience you if I were to request 1 hours flood flag? I am Planning to fix the pages Category:CS1 errors: dates --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 20:04, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

In a bit of a jam since I'm flooding at the moment, but I'd be happy to assign it at a later time when I'm available. Hiàn (talk)_{/editing on mobile account.} 20:09, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

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Cool Deal. I'll ask again later --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 20:10, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Maybe I'll ask at Admins Noticeboard --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 21:25, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

Yeah, probably a better idea. Hiàn (talk)_{/editing on mobile account.} 21:26, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

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(talk page stalker) @Thegooduser: It's also a question of how many changes you're going to make during a given time period. The purpose of the flood flag is to not make things difficult for people who monitor recent changes. You also need to follow the rules of having the flood flag. Among other things, the rules include doing only the approved task while you have the flood flag, even if you have to wait for an admin to remove the flag when you're done. And, as was mentioned, it's best to request the flag at WP:AN instead of on an individual admin's talk page. If you don't have the flag, it's usually OK to make around 100 of the same kind of change without the flag. --Auntof6 (talk) 22:05, 29 April 2020 (UTC)

source

if it says 2011 [last update] how do I fix it? --Thegooduser Let's Talk! :) 🍁 00:03, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Probably best just to remove the last update bit and put the 2011 in a year param if it isn't already. Hiàn (talk) 02:12, 1 May 2020 (UTC)