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| :I think links that are camouflaged as plain year links should not be used. There may soon be some guidance about this, see: ]. Unless you make it clear where the link is going, the reader will think it is just a year link. They will then ignore it just as often as they ignore solitary year links. If the links are needed, you might want to put something like 'see '. ] (]) 12:28, 16 December 2007 (UTC) | :I think links that are camouflaged as plain year links should not be used. There may soon be some guidance about this, see: ]. Unless you make it clear where the link is going, the reader will think it is just a year link. They will then ignore it just as often as they ignore solitary year links. If the links are needed, you might want to put something like 'see '. ] (]) 12:28, 16 December 2007 (UTC) | ||
| ::Could I ask you to hold off on your edits for now? I think such sweeping changes should be discussed by a larger group of editors before being implemented. This affects articles under several different WikiProjects. I could start a discussion at the ] if you'd like. --] (]) 12:54, 16 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
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millihertz
Your script seems to have changed milliHertz, mHz, to megaHertz, MHz in the article . I have remedied the error.Cstaffa (talk) 19:29, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- Indeed it did. I see that is an error. Thanks for bringing it here. There are many many instances of where people incorrectly write 'K' for kilo, 'm' for mega, and 'g' for giga. That applies to all units, not just hertz. The script was deliberately designed to detect and correct these. It never occured to me that a millihertz would ever be deliberately intended. How common do you think that is? Lightmouse (talk) 20:44, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
- I just Googled it; the dominant usage seems to be for variations in frequency rather than absolute frequency. It may be fairly common in astrophysics.Cstaffa (talk) 15:01, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
- Doh, I should have thought of searching the web. I looked just now and see what you mean. I searched Misplaced Pages and the Corona article was the only result. A search for microhertz produced a couple of results. The script is so useful for correcting the many errors with megahertz that I am thinking of keeping it and just watching for false positives. I will have to think about this. Lightmouse (talk) 18:23, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
- Looks like you've discovered another of the pitfalls of overreliance on those scripts. Do hope you have it set up to correct "megaHerz" to megahertz; "Megahertz" is a little more problematic, since you'll need to see if it is capitalized for some other reason such as being the first word in a sentence. Gene Nygaard (talk) 18:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
- It does not correct 'megaHertz' although non-initial capitals would be easy to correct. I think all the letter case corrections relate to symbols only. Lightmouse (talk) 18:50, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
Europe
Please stop removing wikilinks to dates and centuries in the history section of this article with your little script. You are effectively acting like a vandal. Kindly desist. --Mathsci (talk) 14:02, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
- I believe that I improved the article. I am not a vandal, please assume good faith. Lightmouse (talk) 15:25, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Year wikilinks
You removed the YEAR in baseball wikilinks from the currently featured article, Lee Smith (baseball player). And you removed the YEAR in literature wikilinks from the Madeleine L'Engle article. Do you think there should be no wikilinks to those? --Pixelface (talk) 12:23, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
- I think links that are camouflaged as plain year links should not be used. There may soon be some guidance about this, see: wp:mosnum. Unless you make it clear where the link is going, the reader will think it is just a year link. They will then ignore it just as often as they ignore solitary year links. If the links are needed, you might want to put something like 'see '. Lightmouse (talk) 12:28, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
- Could I ask you to hold off on your edits for now? I think such sweeping changes should be discussed by a larger group of editors before being implemented. This affects articles under several different WikiProjects. I could start a discussion at the village pump if you'd like. --Pixelface (talk) 12:54, 16 December 2007 (UTC)