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FA for Underwater diving

I am planning on taking Underwater diving to FA soonish and would appreciate any suggestions for improvement. Particularly, do you see any problems with the formatting of references, or any accessibility defects? Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) : 12:33, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

First job is to take it to Misplaced Pages:Peer review. And perhaps ask MontanaBW to have a look at prose and jargon as an "outsider"? I'll ping Atsme as well as she knows about scuba.

I'll take a look as well, but you'll need every source you can find - mention it to Gene if you haven't already. I've got Bennett and Elliott and Mark Powell's Deco for Divers, as well as all of the CMAS/SAA and some BSAC and RYA training materials, but I think you already have your own copy of all of my other books. This will take some time. --RexxS (talk) 13:57, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Atsme did the GA review, so has already given her fair share of input, but I would be happy to get more. I already have an article (Diving cylinder) at Peer review, and it has had exactly 0 comments so far, so may as well close it as a complete waste of time. Maybe I will have more luck with this one. The article is fairly comprehensively referenced, so it is more a matter of looking at the style of the citations in case there are aspects that are likely to evoke criticism. Additional references can probably wait until someone actually challenges something. I have added alt text to all the images, but it would be good if someone checked them out in case they can be improved. It is almost certain that there are things that are missing, but I am too deep in the trees to see the woods.• • • Peter (Southwood) : 15:11, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Yes, I saw Atsme's GA review and she's familiar enough with both the topic and the article to be a real help if she has time. Peer review can sometimes take months, so there's no point in closing it. It's possible somebody will have a free hour or two and will comment, but there's no way to rush volunteer-led help. The referencing is good, but be prepared for challenges such as these:

• In Underwater diving #Risks and safety paragraph 4, what is the source of the claim that "Equipment failure is rare in open circuit scuba, and while the cause of death is commonly recorded as drowning, this is usually the consequence of an uncontrollable series of events taking place in water"? (which is probably sourced to the two refs at the end of the paragraph - you may have to repeat one nearer to the challenged sentence, so have your sources ready!)
• What makes "snuba.com"/"DeeperBlue.com"/"traveltips.usatoday.com", etc. a reliable source?

You'll also be asked to merge single sentence paragraphs such as the fifth one in the section quoted above (and several others). The lead probably needs to be four paragraphs and should touch on all the major sections of the article. The only scuba-related FA so far is Oxygen toxicity and it is definitely worth reading all of Misplaced Pages:Featured article candidates/Oxygen toxicity/archive1 to get an idea of what you're letting yourself in for. Note especially the trouble I had through defining abbreviations and then not using them, as well as the to-and-fro of moving sections because I was given differing advice at GAN and Peer Review from what was wanted at FAC. Good luck! --RexxS (talk) 17:09, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

Huffington post confirms that Snuba exists and what it is, snuba.com is the manufacturer/marketer of the equipment so should be good for what the equipment is. DeeperBlue and traveltips were redundant so have been removed as they were just supporting acts to far more reliable sources. Accurate, but not "reliable". So it goes.

Yes the sources for the claims in paragraph 4 are the refs at the end of the paragraph. If any of the statements in the paragraph are challenged, the refs can be repeated for the specific items.

Peer review only allows one article per user at any given time, so it seems I have to choose between them.• • • Peter (Southwood) : 20:11, 3 November 2016 (UTC)

You called? I took a little time off from RL to catch-up a little on the subject article, and see where Peter has added a bit more information and is moving toward an FA nomination. I previously made a few suggestions to Peter regarding prep for an FA review, and during the GA review mentioned a few things he needed to do, such as find homes for the orphan sentences (which Rexx properly refers to as single sentence paragraphs). I'll be happy to comment again as an FA reviewer when the time comes as it will give me some distance from the GA review while at the same time, I'll be coming into it aware of certain things that were acceptable for GA but must meet higher standards for FA, most of which Rexx has already pointed out. Just an FYI - checking citations & formatting sources are not my strong point. 13:21, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

If ye guys go for FAC please tap me for a review. Ceoil (talk) 15:25, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Ceoil. Peter is taking on a big topic for his first FA nomination and I know he'll be glad of your experience as he prepares for the nom. --RexxS (talk) 19:14, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

No problem Rexx. I know you are all about integrity of content. Ceoil (talk) 20:07, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

RexxS, Do you have SCUBA Diving: A Quantitative risk assessment. HSE contract research report 140. Isle of Wight, UK: PARAS. by any chance, it is cited twice in Underwater diving, and seems to be cited all over the place in the literature, but does not appear on line that I can find. I would like to check its relevance and it looks like a fairly important piece of work in diving safety research, so I am keen to lay eyes on it for that reason too.
Also, Since you are into accessibility, would you take a look at my alt text for the images and see if they make sense without being able to see the images? Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) : 15:38, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi Ceoil, I wondered if I had run across your name before. Now I know where. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) : 15:38, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Peter, I've looked for the report, but can't find a copy anywhere in my collection or on my hard drives. That's odd, because I seem to recollect reading it! Anyway, I thought I'd try to track down who introduced the source by checking the Revision History Search. However, you imported the text and references into Underwater diving from Human factors in diving safety. When I checked who added the source there, it turns out that you did when you created the article in 2012. Can you remember if you got the lead of that from somewhere else? I can't find the title in any other article, but it may have been different in 2012. Maybe Gene Hobbs knows where we can find it? --RexxS (talk) 17:41, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

That's from before the flood. I don't remember details that far back, but, If I first added the source it may even be somewhere in the chaos that is my old computer. We shall see. Cheers, • • • Peter (Southwood) : 19:37, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

"trolls"

it doesn't help dealing with disruptive users when experienced users make personal attacks. it would be super helpful if you changed the language about "trolls". nobody has responded to your comments yet so you are free to change that... please do. Jytdog (talk) 20:16, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

It doesn't make any difference in my experience. Those IPs are clearly trolling the page in an off-wiki-organised campaign and I don't believe it hurts to call a spade a spade in this case. Thanks for your concern though. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 20:24, 10 November 2016 (UTC)

See what I mean: , . LOL --RexxS (talk) 01:27, 11 November 2016 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

Thank you for helping to save my sanity at Uebert Angel

Jbh 21:30, 17 November 2016 (UTC)

Nomination for deletion of Template:Cclink

Template:Cclink has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. ~ Rob₁₃ 06:33, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

Racehorse infobox

If you can add the Standardbred parameters inside a module, they are: gait, driver, mile record (minute-seconds). We were also discussing groom as a parameter, though that would be OK outside the module because all racehorses have them (the groom is generally the person who feeds the horse, saddles or harnesses it, cleans its stall, etc... from the horse's perspective, the groom is probably a lot more important than the trainer.) According to the infobox page, I can't edit it because it's protected against everybody but template editors. White Arabian Filly 23:50, 20 November 2016 (UTC)

@White Arabian Filly and MontanaBW: The point of using a custom module is that anybody can create it and edit it. I've created Template:Infoboxmodule Standardbred, which you can change as needed. The module is then included within a Standardbred racehorse article inside Template:Infobox racehorse as I've demonstrated here on the infobox from Niatross.

This system will also allow editors to create other custom modules similar to this one for other genres of racing without needing to edit Template:Infobox racehorse.

We can jigger with Groom if you want it as a parameter in all racehorse infoboxes, but that would need me to edit the main Template:Infobox racehorse template. Let me know. --RexxS (talk) 14:49, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, and I understand about the module now. I hadn't used one before so I didn't know it was on a separate page. White Arabian Filly 20:36, 21 November 2016 (UTC)

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Infobox person oops.

Any article that has |religion= with a value is giving off:

Warning: Page using Template:Infobox person with unknown parameter "religion" (this message is shown only in preview).

The religion parameter is showing up in the article. I first noticed it on Joseph Franklin Rutherford, but it's on every article's preview with religion set. Bgwhite (talk) 07:55, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Hi Bgwhite, that's a consequence of the decision to remove the parameter, which I expect will happen soon. I wanted to give some warning to editors, so I removed the parameter from the whitelist. The RfC is at Misplaced Pages:Village pump (policy)/Archive 126 #RfC: Religion in biographical infoboxes and the discussion about how to remove the parameter is at Template talk:Infobox person #Ethnicity? Religion?. I've created a tracking category at Category:Infobox person using religion - 6750 articles in the category at present. --RexxS (talk) 13:49, 24 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you and darn. I thought I caught you making your first mistake. Is it possible to change the warning message for a few months, so morons like me don't get all worried? Bgwhite (talk) 06:23, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

@Bgwhite: I've made a function in my personal module space, Module:RexxS, that should give a customisable warning in preview mode, e.g. "the religion parameter will be removed soon." If it works, I'll whitelist religion again and add a call to the warning message. Feel free to customise the message to taste. It's on the 12th line from the bottom of Template:Infobox person --RexxS (talk) 23:06, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

P.S. There are now 0 articles in Category:Infobox person using ethnicity and 0 articles in Category:Infobox person using religion --RexxS (talk) 23:35, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

I've posted at WP:RFPP to have that module protected as "high-risk". -- John of Reading (talk) 07:40, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Thanks John. That's good thinking, although I don't expect the call will need to stay in {{infobox person}} for very long. Better safe ... --RexxS (talk) 12:36, 26 November 2016 (UTC)

Thank you. Bgwhite (talk) 07:55, 27 November 2016 (UTC)

Nobody

In re "nobody but a handful of cranks believes that homeopathy is effective, but nobody believes it is unsafe, either": You may be interested in the latest headlines, which have homeopathic medicines being recalled for being poisonous. WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:29, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Well, knock me over with a feather. Who would have thought it? Is there any research comparing the incidence of seizures among those taking homeopathic tablets and gels with a control group? I mean, my initial reaction would be to ask what they are using for the gels? gelatinised sarin? --RexxS (talk) 17:00, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

I've got no idea. The recent news stories seem to use phrases like "inconsistent amounts of belladonna", which suggests that a flawed manufacturing process may be at fault. (OTOH, with an (adult) LD50 of 500 mg/kg, a single pill of even pure belladonna might not be deadly.) But The New York Times is reporting that ten babies are dead. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:03, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

Access question

Hi RexxS, long time no talk. Lots has happened in a short space of time, but I'm back to lists and FLCs, so I had a favour regarding an accessibility question on List of poker hand categories. Is {{Cards}} fully accessible? Is its implementation in that list suitable for screen readers etc? All the best, The Rambling Man (talk) 21:53, 4 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi The Rambling Man, it's really good to hear from you again, and I'm very glad you're getting stuck into FLs again. I seem to remember this question coming up a few years ago, and if I recall correctly, Graham87 explained that the unicode characters ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ (for Graham: the characters for hearts, diamonds, clubs, spades) were not read out by his screen reader. I can't get NVDA to read them, so I'm guessing that they are not accessible, but I'd be grateful if Graham could confirm that with his gear. If that's so, I can see a possible solution using the title attribute, although that's frowned on now by accessibility experts because most of the time it doesn't work. The other option is to use the WebAIM recommendations for hiding text from sighted readers. @Graham: could you let us know how each of the three options below are read on your default setup:

• 3♦
• 3♦
• 3♦ of diamonds

Each of them displays visually as three of diamonds, but NVDA seems to read them differently. Thanks, Graham, for any help you can give on this.

So, TRM, if some amendments are needed, I can implement them at Template:Cards/core, but I'd like to hear from Graham before I do anything. --RexxS (talk) 00:19, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Rexx and The Rambling Man, the previous discussion on this topic is at Misplaced Pages talk:Manual of Style/Accessibility/Archive 11#Non standard ASCII. What's changed since then is that JAWS has added support for many more Unicode characters (I don't know exactly when they did this because I had to skip several JAWS versions, but it was in the last few years). However, it reads some in a rather strange way ... the card characters are read as "black heart suit", "black diamond suit", etc. So on JAWS, the three options are read for me as "three black diamond suit", "three black diamond suit", and "three black diamond suit of diamonds", respectively. It's true that NVDA doesn't read those characters properly at all. I don't know about Apple's VoiceOver, however, but I'll ask about that. Graham87 01:39, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

VOiceOver on the Mac reads the three options as 3 black diamond suit, three black diamond suit, and 3 red diamond suit of diamonds. Interestingly enough, when reading the first two options character-by-character, VoiceOver reads the "black diamond suit" character as "red diamond suit." Have not tested with the iPhone as of yet, but it should have similar behavior. Codeofdusk (talk) 01:47, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks very much, Graham and Codeofdusk. I can see why the results are strange: the actual unicode character ♦ is a "black diamond" because it's the same colour (black) as the rest of the text by default. The template is naturally using css to set a style on a span that makes the text red for sighted viewers - it's interesting that VoiceOver manages to recognise that with some settings.

Anyway, TRM, I don't think we've got a solution for you. The latest versions of the most popular screen readers on Windows and Mac give enough information for the user to make some sense of what is presented; the most common free reader doesn't. If I make changes to fix the problem for NVDA, it makes matters worse for JAWS and VO. The best bet, IMHO, is to leave things alone and encourage the maintainers of Template:Cards to implement the promised option to allow images to be used in place of the unicode characters. They will look less good when zoomed for sighted viewers, but we could reliably use the image alt text to carry the suit information for a screen reader - and that's a banker for every screen reader. We probably ought to archive this conversation somewhere we can find it again in future :P --RexxS (talk) 02:14, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

There (was) an add-on to bring emoji support to NVDA but I don't think it's being maintained anymore. It really should be a mainstream feature these days. We're the minority, if using standard emoji degrades the experience for sighted users and if it's accessible on at least macOS and iOS than using emoji is the best option. NVDA's lack of support for emoji is a separate problem and affects more than just Misplaced Pages... Codeofdusk (talk) 03:57, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

@Codeofdusk: I agree with the general gist of your message. However they aren't really emoji (see Playing cards in Unicode). Playing card characters have been a thing since the original IBM PC (see Code page 437). Just on a lark, I tested the original card characters in the DOS screen readers I have available to me using Talking Dosbox. Flipper and ASAP read them fine; ironically the only one that didn't was JAWS for DOS. Go figure. Graham87 11:47, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks all. I guess that means we'll just have to "make do" with what we have right now. Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 07:54, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Warwick course

Do you have any information on when the Warwick assignment will end? I think several of the articles need cleanup, but it seems best to wait until after the students are finished and have been assessed. Joe Roe (talk) 16:12, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks Joe. I agree cleanup is needed, although I'm trying to encourage the students to do their own by pointing them to MOS and other pages that give guidance. I emailed that very question to the lecturer last week and he's just replied that the deadline is this Thursday 8 Dec, 23:59. He also gave me a link to the course page: https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/University_of_Warwick/Human_Sexuality_(Autumn_2016)

I'll ask my contact at Wikimedia UK, Richard Nevell (WMUK) if he could perhaps drop a note to WT:WikiProject Medicine giving those sort of details the next time a course runs. Cheers --RexxS (talk) 16:33, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Thanks, I think that would be for the best. I'm surprised to learn a course page exists after all. I see it lists the articles edited, but there's no form of link back to the course page from those articles? Joe Roe (talk) 22:50, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

No there isn't. Please feel free to express all of your concerns to any of the editors listed on the course page (i.e. not me). --RexxS (talk) 22:58, 5 December 2016 (UTC)

Hello both. In future it would definitely be helpful for me to alert WP:MED. An interesting quirk of the dashboard is that the Education Dashboard automatically creates a page on Misplaced Pages about it but the Outreach Dashboard doesn't have that functionality (yet) meaning it isn't easy to find when you're starting on Misplaced Pages itself. Richard Nevell (WMUK) (talk) 18:04, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Section

I don't think you're supposed to comment in that section. You should reply in your own section. Also, just to point out, that table also shows that none of the pro-HRC editors have receive any sanctions at AE.--v/r - TP 23:40, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

@TParis: I thought of that, but I don't have a section. He did ask me directly, so he must have been expecting a reply. --RexxS (talk) 23:43, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Assuming that our AE admins are unbiased and infallible, the interpretation would have to be that the pro-HRC editors behave less badly when they do misbehave. YMMV :D --RexxS (talk) 23:46, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Perhaps. We don't have enough data, I suppose, to determine either way. Interesting how even the data is seen in different ways by different eyes. Interesting cube, by the way.--v/r - TP 23:53, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

@TParis: nah, I'm just kidding. I'm in the UK and don't have a dog in the race concerning anything to do with Trump or Clinton. I only butted in because I was appalled with HT's behaviour at Bishonen's talk page. --RexxS (talk) 00:07, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Please strike unsubstantiated claim

Hi, RexxS. I note that on the AE page, you made this statement under my appeal (with no diffs): "As an aside, he seems to indicate in that table that Hidden tempo is acknowledged as a Trump supporter, not a neutral editor as he's been claiming." I am the only one who is able to say who he supported during the election, not @James J. Lambden. If you choose to believe that the facts make Trump look good, then so be it. If you choose to believe that the facts make Clinton look good, then so be it. I am a neutral editor, but you are able to hold whatever opinion you wish...in private. I would like to give you an opportunity to strike that comment, and remind you to please be more careful not to cast aspersions in the future. Thank you. Hidden Tempo (talk) 03:30, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Hi Hidden Tempo. I don't need diffs when I've already linked the source page via a permalink for anybody to see. You are marked there as a Trump supporter, not as a neutral editor. You need to take that up with James J. Lambden as he did the markup, not I. I am merely reporting how you are viewed by your fellow-travellers. In my opinion though, you're not a neutral editor in the field of US politics as your edit history makes clear. You may choose to make whatever claims you want about your biases, but facts speak for themselves. You don't get to tell me where I can express my opinions, so with all due respect, you can take your suggestion of striking and stick it elsewhere. I'll also remind you that discussing Trump and Clinton here, outside of your AE appeal is a breach of your topic ban. Check what "broadly construed" means. Cordially, --RexxS (talk) 18:21, 7 December 2016 (UTC)

Happy Holidays!

Spread the cheer by adding {{Subst:Xmas4}} to their talk page with a friendly message.

RexxS, Happy Holiday/New Year!--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 12:31, 7 December 2016 (UTC)