User talk:Auntof6

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AWB Skills

Hello - I have figured out how to bring the count down in Category:Pages using infobox television with unknown parameters (1,371 pages). The following parameters were removed from the {{Infobox television}} (see this portion here):

Please remove

• picture_format
• website
• audio_format
• distributor
• website_title
• production_website
• production_website_title
• distributor
• preceded_by
• followed_by

Please change Chronology to related

If you are able to do this, it would be appreciated. It should knock that category down, if not to zero, pretty close. The ones it cannot get to, I can do manually. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 03:17, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

I can work on that. I have a bunch of AWB setups for taking care of various templates' unknown parameters, so I can cannibalize one of them. -- Auntof6 (talk) 03:29, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 03:30, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: I'm working on this now. I'm taking care of other unknown parameters as well. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:01, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Thank you. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 07:32, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

Just wanted to check in and see how this went and if I should hop in to clear up any remaining couple that should be left? Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 11:25, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: I haven't finished working on them yet. Since you're leaving, I'll look at whatever is left after I finish with AWB. -- Auntof6 (talk) 22:32, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

wikipedia:Copyrights

In some sections it says “he.” Can that be changed to be gender neutral please? Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 05:48, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Mass-moving of pages in a category

Hello, @Auntof6, we have a couple of duplicate categories: Category:Singlechart usages and Category:Single chart usages. Both cats have over 100 pages. Could you please assist in mass-moving pages from Category:Singlechart usages to Category:Single chart usages and redirect it? Somehow, Cat-a-lot does not work for me. – Cyber.Eyes2005^Talk 15:02, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Cyber.Eyes.2005: Yes, I'll look at it. Cat-a-lot is currently having issues moving categories -- there are some related discussions toward the bottom of c:MediaWiki_talk:Gadget-Cat-a-lot.js. -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:12, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Cyber.Eyes.2005: Actually, it looks like a lot of the subcats in Category:Singlechart usages are empty and have corresponding categories in Category:Single chart usages. I'm thinking the empty, incorrectly-named ones should be redirected or deleted instead of moved. What do you think? -- Auntof6 (talk) 21:20, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Auntof6, That sounds like a reasonable approach. Most subcats in Singlechart usages are empty. I think it'd be better to redirect those (or possibly delete them) to the corresponding ones in Category:Single chart usages. Categories' names should be consistent with the parent template/Page, here Template:Single chart. These cats were deleted on EnWiki for the same reason (en:wp:Categories for discussion/Log/2022 November 9#Category:Singlechart called without song). – Cyber.Eyes2005^Talk 21:50, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Cyber.Eyes.2005: I agree. Since that wouldn't be a Cat-a-lot issue, do you still need me for this? --Auntof6 (talk) 22:03, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

I think I can do that myself. I'll let you know if I need any help. Thanks! ^^ – Cyber.Eyes2005^Talk 11:56, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

@Cyber.Eyes.2005: It would be nice if you get these redirects done (or deletes, if you decide to go that way). The empty categories are showing up under Special:UnusedCategories. Once they're redirected (with {{category redirect}}), they should stop showing up there. Thanks! -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:54, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

I've taken care of them. They should stop appearing in Special:UnusedCategories once it's updated. I've redirected many of those categories and also deleted some under QD C2. – Cyber.Eyes2005^Talk 05:45, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

@Cyber.Eyes.2005: Thanks muchly! -- Auntof6 (talk) 07:23, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

New category for project

Hi! As you are the master of categories, I wanted to get a recommendation from you for my project, named by Darkfrog24 Total Backlog Annihilation. The only requirements are:

1. Easy for editors to do that do not need complex writing of anything.
2. Does not exceed 100 pages in the category

These requirements are only because the project does not only move slow, but because on the last one, I had many editors participate that are new to SEWP. The category we did was using this special link and we knocked it down to less than 20 from over 300 pages in a couple of days and allowed us to QD a lot of non-sense and such articles. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 01:20, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: I'm not sure what you're asking. If you're asking about a category to create for a WikiProject, we don't use categories for WikiProjects. If you're asking something else, please clarify. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:10, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

For you to pick a category we already have that can use some attention for editors to work on fixing per the two requirements I stated previously. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 02:14, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: Ah, OK. Let me give that some thought. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:15, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok. Thanks! Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 02:16, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: Does it need to be something that's actually tracked as a backlog? I found this one with about 17 entries that shouldn't be too hard: Category:Articles with invalid date parameter in template. I'll keep looking for more. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:38, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

I can knock that one out myself. Backlogs are great for this project. I just don’t want 2k or 3k pages in it right now because it will take forever. Maybe around 100-200 pages in it? Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 02:44, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok this one is  Done! Some took more work than others. A lot of them were because there was a template that used a date we didn’t have a date for like use Canadian English date January 2013 so my fixes were either change the date to a category we had or if I didn’t have enough to create a category I just removed it. I also discovered some other issues like an IP vandalizing a widely used template that caused a ton of articles to end up in an error cat that caught my attention. Took me an hour to figure out what was calling a non-existent module but I found it and fixed it so that cat is back down to normal levels. If you need anything else, please let me know. I found two articles I need to give more help to but I’ll do them later. I’m done for the night. Thanks for the category recommendation. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 08:17, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

I saw your edit summary. Is it really worth creating a category to turn around and delete it when we can change the date and start anew? Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 08:54, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: Yes. Otherwise we would be constantly changing dates on maintenance templates. There's no problem having maintenance categories with fewer than 3 entries. Besides, what you did didn't change the date, it completely removed the template which should have been kept. -- Auntof6 (talk) 08:57, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Ok I’ll go back and take care of them tomorrow when I wake up and create the cats. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 08:58, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

 Done I went back through my edits and put them back on and corrected the ones malformed and created the categories as needed. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 23:34, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

@PotsdamLamb: How about Category:Articles with broken file links (currently at 140 entries)? Those are mostly articles brought from enwiki that use files stored on enwiki. The fix is usually either 1) find an appropriate file on Wikimedia Commons and use that or 2) remove the file code. -- Auntof6 (talk) 02:49, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Perfect! I’ll get it typed up. Thank you. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 02:50, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

That IP

They just got off two back to back blocks. They are that famous Pakistani pushed from England. See User talk:DannyS712#Sorry as no action was taken including the fact the IP went and tagged a bunch of articles related to rights, lesbians and homosexuals with my name for QD. You will see that in their history. MathXplore did link the IP to two CU notes on this individual. Thanks, and be well! - PDL^{Talk to me!}_{Please don't eat da 🐑!} 10:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

Talkback

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Kk.urban (talk) 01:01, 22 April 2024 (UTC)

question

hi dear admin. I am collaborating with Sindh Adabbi Board which is government sponsored institution in Pakistan for promotion of Sindhi literature i want to know how do we publish notable subjects also how to undelete articles which are poorly affected by poor attention done by our press or writers.

thanks . Jinglingzone (talk) 13:39, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

when you have time dear admin

dear admin I today found out that some articles literature belonging to Sindh. is getting deleted here on simple wiki. also subjects were very much notable in Sindh and Middle East with its sources being very straight. I wonder how it was deleted with discussion not being enough on AfD. I also understanding the difficulty to understand non English sources. can you please give your precious time to check it out about that ? I am student of History I would like to raise some points here. thank you. Best Wishes be well

Jinglingzone (talk) CaptVII̟̠- 06:57, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

@Jinglingzone: I have no way of checking that if I don't know the article names. However, please use WP:Deletion review for this kind of request. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 06:58, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

article names were like 'Allamah Sayyid Ihsanullah Shah Rashdi' a prominent religious scholar and Khilafatist hailing from Sindh he had millions of religious followers and his steps had a deep impression on muslims of sub continent and arabia. second article was named also a freedom fighter of India who fought colonialism got into prison for years Gandhi gave him loud support etc.

how do I list names in deletion for review I'm new here its quite difficult but watching youtube videos helps me

best wishes be well. thank you for giving your precious time Jinglingzone (talk) CaptVII̟̠- 07:21, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

@Jinglingzone: Go to the deletion review page and look at examples of current discussions. Then add a section for the page you want to discuss. -- Auntof6 (talk) 09:42, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

let me try

I guess I need to try edit the page and add details of relevant articles.

thank you really really appreciate that.

bless. Jinglingzone (talk) CaptVII̟̠- 10:10, 25 April 2024 (UTC)

dear admin I have placed a request on deletion review. but there is a issue I think I couldn't set it properly can you see if it is placed properly or not

Best wishes. Jinglingzone (talk) CaptVII̟̠- 11:29, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

arbitrary deletion

the deletion of Sasson Ifram Shaulov was very arbitrary you can return the edition. 181.197.40.84 (talk) 22:13, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

I was not involved in deleting that article. Please use WP:AN to ask for deleted pages to be restored, or ask the admin who did the delete. In this case, that was Macdonald-ross. Thanks. -- Auntof6 (talk) 23:33, 27 April 2024 (UTC)