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:Thank you! That isn't even the complete list - ] isn't on there yet, for example, and that's pretty mammoth. :) I should get round to updating the list some time... — ''''']''''' <sup>]</sup> 15:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC) :Thank you! That isn't even the complete list - ] isn't on there yet, for example, and that's pretty mammoth. :) I should get round to updating the list some time... — ''''']''''' <sup>]</sup> 15:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

== Urvashi rautela content ==

Hi Stardivarius,
This is prashant manager of urvashi rautela who handle her all online activities and promotion. The few content was wrong and mention for un necessary reason. The ref video was upload as youtube ref. Her official website is under progress. The Rautela was subsequently dethroned is unwanted news. My email id is prashant.biz@gmail.com and Urvashi Rautela <rautelaurvashi@gmail.com> is the actual id of urvashi if you want cross verify you can mail her directly.
ImUrvashiRautela i am trying to recorrect and update unwanted news. You can suggest how to improvise and avoid unwanted content that affect urvashi as a women who is growing public figure in India. You can check Mar 2, 2015, 12.00AM IST TNN content in leading paper http://m.timesofindia.com/life-style/food/food-reviews/Ahmedabad-celebrates-the-best-of-food/articleshow/46419915.cms

{ Ahmedabad's most eagerly awaited annual event, the Times Food Awards 2015, just got bigger and better this year! On a pleasant evening, all roads led to the Courtyard by Marriott, Ahmedabad, the hospitality partner for the event. Bollywood heartthrob Ali Fazal and the gorgeous Urvashi Rautela, actress and Miss Universe India 2012, were the chief guests for the evening. } if she was dethroned in 2012 times of india wont mention in march 2 2015 as Urvashi Rautela, actress and Miss Universe India 2012.

So humble request please dont put back dethroned words again which affect somebody public figure career.

Regards
Prashant

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Your recent change to {{asbox}} seems to have messed up the sortkey for upmerged stub tags. I'm reeverting your edits; feel free to re-instate them once you (or someone else) have fixed the bug. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 17:03, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

@Od Mishehu: Sorry about that, and thanks for reverting. I'll take another look at it once Codehydro has fixed the bugs in the module. Best — Mr. Stradivarius 21:59, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
I reinstated it and checked; the results were that the upmerged stub tags are in the middle again (at the location of the "tempsort" value). To be precise, I null-edited the templates of Category:Virginia sport stubs ({{Virginia-baseball-venue-stub}}, {{Virginia-basketball-team-stub}}, {{Virginia-sports-venue-stub}}) and checked where they ended up. עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:07, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
I gotn it to work - see these edits (my first LUA edits). עוד מישהו Od Mishehu 16:41, 29 January 2015 (UTC)
  • @Od Mishehu: Are you sure your edit is what is supposed to happen? the original code was:
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Thanks for the fast reply! I've replied and addressed a couple more things. Command and Conquer Expert! review me... 07:41, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hey Mr. Stradivarius, apparently you know stuff--that's good, because I don't. This template, something must be wrong--I'm looking at User talk:Writ Keeper/Archives/13 and the "do so on the current talk page" bit is a redlink going to this, which I know isn't what we want. I hope you can fix it--what if someone gets lost in Writ Keeper's archive? There would be hell to pay. Thanks, Drmies (talk) 04:38, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

That's true - heaven forbid we would have to send in a search party. Unfortunately, I don't think this can be fixed in the template, as people can never quite decide whether they want to talk about things on base pages or root pages, so we will have to resort to the age-old device of the Redirect, which I have now done. May the masses now wander Writ's archive's in peace. — Mr. Stradivarius 06:44, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
TY muchly. He probably got lost in his own archives... Drmies (talk) 17:23, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hey Mr. Stradivarius! Many months ago I came up to you to see if I could be a possible candidate for adminship. Yet again, I recently got messages about considering being nominated for adminship by several editors. Would you mind re-reviewing me to see if I could be a candidate for an RfA? Best, ///EuroCarGT 01:47, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Sure, I'll take a look when I next have a spare moment. Best — Mr. Stradivarius 02:04, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

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Today's TFA talk page (Talk:Tintin in the Congo) is displaying the message "This article is currently on on Misplaced Pages's Main Page as Today's featured article." If I could find where to change "on on" to "on" I would do so - could you please fix this? Thanks, Bencherlite 11:25, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Fixed. Bencherlite 11:32, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
@Bencherlite: Well-spotted, and well-fixed! That was exactly the edit that was needed. Sorry for the the inconvenience. ;) — Mr. Stradivarius 11:51, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Me again... The article history at Talk:SMS Bayern has a misplaced, or missing, ' somewhere, causing a mis-match of bold/italic. I can't find the same problem at other pages within the same featured topic e.g. Talk:SMS Posen so I suspect it has something to do with the fact that the article is today's TFA - can you find the cause? Bencherlite 18:48, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

(talk page stalker) Fixed by removing the line breaks in {{SMS}}. It looks like {{SMS}} may not tolerate line breaks as well as it should. Just a guess. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:51, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
Marvellous. Thanks. Bencherlite 20:18, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
The proper fix would be to trim whitespace from the parameters in Template:Ship. But then, the problem might not crop up enough for it to be worth it. — Mr. Stradivarius 22:00, 18 February 2015 (UTC)

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Why you had to protect Template:Cr, I also found that you might have protected totally wrong version. Right version is here. Hajme (talk) 15:11, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

Actually, I lowered the protection level, from sysop to template editor, and I didn't change the contents of the template at all. If you think that the version you linked is better than the current one, then you should start a discussion about it at Template talk:Cr. Let me know if you have any other questions about this. Best — Mr. Stradivarius 15:15, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
@Hajme: ping (I messed up the first notification). — Mr. Stradivarius 15:24, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
Searched again, current version is correct and it was protected because of the edit war. Thanks for answering anyway. Hajme (talk) 09:32, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

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stop Just so it's clear: the next time you rush through to try to close a discussion like you did here on Lines 258 and 269 this I will start procedures to getting you blocked. --A21sauce (talk) 21:07, 16 February 2015 (UTC)

@A21sauce: This is just how protected edit requests work. By adding the {{edit protected}} template to a discussion, you are in effect saying, "This edit has consensus; please could an admin make it." If you add the template to a request that doesn't in fact have consensus, then the request is declined, but that doesn't mean that you can't discuss it further and add the template again later. — Mr. Stradivarius 01:56, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

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Re: onlyinclude

I know of it, actually! However it's not much use changing the configuration of a child page, if you wanted to fix that it'd be better to go for the master template.

All this is giving me a massive headache. I already know Python pretty well, guess it's time to learn Lua too? ResMar 02:56, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

(PS: Don't actually change that, I'd do it later myself once I'm done getting smashed in by parser functions. ResMar 02:57, 22 February 2015 (UTC))
Ah, yes, it will change the page size and affect the calculations, increasing your headaches. Sorry about that. I have some more thoughts as well, but I'll put them on VPT so everyone can see them. — Mr. Stradivarius 03:00, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
So it's pretty clear that I'd have to if not quite completely redo everything approach the problem from an entirely different angle. How can we embed Lua into this to make it work smoother? I confess that I was even thinking of really, really dirty tricks—like silently overlaying the edit pane with a screenshot of one with the link disabled—to make sure no one breaks it. So a Lua auto-counter implementation would be strictly better. Are you up for writing one? I confess that I've spent far, far too much time working on this already—I was supposed to beg back to studying for classes yesterday, let alone today...
Anyway if you want to take a stab at it you have the floor for a while. Hopefully I can exercise enough self-control to keep from hurting myself again with parser functions for at least another week! ResMar 03:40, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Ack. Your script did in five minutes what I failed to do in two hours. Everything's been ported over and is working optimally: see here. Opinion polls—coming to a news-desk near you! In time. I hope. ResMar 07:08, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
It's done! ResMar 21:10, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Very nice. I should probably move the module to a better name so that you don't have to type "User:Mr. Stradivarius" everywhere. :) I'll try and get round to that later on. — Mr. Stradivarius 01:44, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
I'm going to have a really hard time justifying the time away from my classes I had to spent to get this done a week or so from now, but I'll be damned if I'm not proud of having gotten it done anyway, now. ResMar 05:36, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
Yes, here's looking forward to lots more new Signpost polls. :) — Mr. Stradivarius 05:43, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
There are a lot of aggressive things that could be done at the Signpost now that a proper programming language is live, stuff that wouldn't necessarily make sense in the mainspace but would be really amazing for a newspaper, so I think my next project is going to be to learn Lua and work up some competency in it—time to increment the number of languages I know how to operate a matrix in to four... ResMar 20:07, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
On further reflection I'm going to need to think about whether or not this'd be necessary and productive. ResMar 20:32, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Sardanaphalus

pretty sure CSDix, 195.147.24.214, and 195.147.31.104 are socks of Sardanaphalus. Frietjes (talk) 19:37, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

I think so too. So now he's IP hopping. -- ] {{talk}} 22:02, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
Sardanaphalus wasn't topic banned in 2013 when CsDix was active, so I'd be reluctant to block unless the account becomes active again. The IPs also look stale. If you spot any new socks, though, report them at the SPI. I'll be keeping an eye on it. — Mr. Stradivarius 00:47, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
more 195.147.25.84 Frietjes (talk) 23:02, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
I've range-blocked 195.147.24.0/21. — Mr. Stradivarius 23:25, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

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Hi Mr. Stradivarius,

I know that I recently said I was going to wait longer than the beginning of this fall, but this recent thread made me think twice. In the thread alone, there's about five potential supporters, more or less, including another one on WT:RFA. (Three of these users are admins.) It was recommended that I wait for about six months (which I fully agree with), but one admin even suggested April (!). So, it looks like an RfA about six months from now (early to mid September, perhaps) has some potential. Since it is advised that candidates should start preparing six months before the RfA, it is about the right time. I would be grateful if you could review my contributions (take as long as you need). You could reply here or via email, which I would prefer. Thanks, --Biblioworm 20:16, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Sure, I'll try and have a look some time this week. — Mr. Stradivarius 13:57, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Archives

Hi Mr. Stradivarius. I was wondering if you have seen my ping at Template_talk:Archive_list#Merge_in_archive_list_long, and if your interested in collaborating on the Lua module. I could really use your expertise and suggestions moving ahead. Just let me know what you think, cheers, Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 10:06, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

@Martijn Hoekstra: Hi Martin! Sorry about not responding to the ping - I looked at it, and then completely forgot about it... I am interested in collaborating on the Lua module, though. I'll take a look at it in a little while. — Mr. Stradivarius 10:58, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
No problem! The parameter handling of the archives module is much better, and it's much more complete in general, but I do like the exponential search I implemented to get the max archive number, maybe we can port that, plus a switch for the long formatting style? Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 11:04, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
@Martijn Hoekstra: I have to say that when I look back over Module:Archive list, my instinct is to chuck it out and rewrite the whole thing. :) Or to put it more charitably, I wrote that module when I was still relatively clueless about programming. I think the best course of action would be to replace Module:Archive list and Module:Archives with a new module that has an exponential search algorithm, that can take either numbered or dated archives as input, and that can produce output in a variety of formats (e.g. plain lists or wikitables). I've actually done some work on exponential archive search already at Module:Highest archive number, and earlier today after remembering about your initial ping, I wrote Module:Exponential search, which we might be able to use to power archive search and also other modules like Module:Array length without having to write the same recursive algorithm a dozen times. After discussion at WT:CHU, I made a start on an OOP module that can work with different archive formats (Module:Changing username archives), but I haven't finished it yet. The main idea in the module is that we define an archive list object that is the same for both numbered and dated archives, and add methods to render that object in various different formats. As long as there's an intermediate format, though, it doesn't have to be object-oriented. Does that make sense to you? Let me know if you think I'm spouting a whole load of nonsense. :) — Mr. Stradivarius 14:34, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
@Mr. Stradivarius: that makes a lot of sense. I'm very inexperienced in Lua myself (I had to look up the operator to test for inequality: that inexperienced) so you'll see lots of beginner errors from me. That said, I do fancy myself as a half-decent programmer. You module exponential search looks nice - I remember I had some reason to use ceil rather than floor, but I can't remember the specifics (does this terminate if init = 1 and the maximum archive = 1?). As for the OOP module, I suppose that could work, though I personally prefer a functional approach - even if Lua isn't really typed; though the definition of OOP is so vague, you can pretty much get away with calling anything OOP. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:46, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
Also, for a design, to me it makes sens that using your exponential search module, we need a function number -> string that makes the link text, and a function Array(string) -> string that makes the end result. So the core of the module would be a function ( predicate: number -> bool, formatlink: number -> string, formatList: stringarray -> string). We can then have two tables with various formatting functions to emulate the current display formats. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 15:57, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
In case that was clear as mud, something like Module:User:Martijn Hoekstra/Sandbox/Archiving. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 16:12, 25 February 2015 (UTC)
@Martijn Hoekstra: It looks like that would work well for numbered archives, but we will need a different strategy for dated archives like the rejected rename requests in Misplaced Pages:Changing username/Archives. The obvious way to do that would be to get users to specify a prefix, a date format and a starting date, and then generate all the links for the date format for every month until the current month, so no exponential search required.

I'm happy to do things in a function style, rather than OOP - it's probably a good idea for me to try a large-ish module that's not done in OOP for a change. I think the first order of the day should be to create an intermediate format that can be used by both dated and numbered archives. If we make the format solid and future-proof from the start, then adding features will be easy, but if we keep having to tinker with the format it will have knock-on effects throughout the code base, and will increase our work unnecessarily. At least, that's the theory. :) What are your thoughts? — Mr. Stradivarius 13:30, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

For dated archives, they are generally in the form of year - month. A function of number -> year - months is relatively straight forward (i.e. months since some arbitrary starting point). Since the exponential search module already takes an init value, it's just a question of providing the predicate and formatting functions. The core doesn't have to know that the format is in year - month; the format is the same (I think. If there may be gaps in the month, I'm not sure what to do). Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 13:35, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
@Martijn Hoekstra: I suppose we could use an exponential search to find the earliest date archive without having users specify it explicitly. I'm reluctant to do this, though, as it would mean checking archives for existence, and therefore using expensive function calls where we don't strictly have to. It's unavoidable to use expensive function calls for numbered archives, as the only alternative is to update the maximum number manually; for dated archives, however, all users would have to do would be to specify the earliest archive date, and that would never change. By the way, are you on IRC? We should probably talk about this there, as the time lapse in wiki discussions isn't very good for code brainstorming. :) — Mr. Stradivarius 01:45, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

I'm on and off on IRC as MartijnH, probably won't have much time during the day today, until Sunday. You are right off course about the dates; 0 expensive parser function calls is a lot better than a handful. Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 07:18, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

Lyon Hackathon

Hi Mr. Stradivarius, have you considered coming to the Lyon Hackathon ? I realize that, if I'm not mistaken, you are in Japan, which is quite a bit away from France, but you are a very prolific template and Lua author and I'd personally would love to see you there. Perhaps a grant can be arranged or something, IEG or from one of the foundations or chapters. —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 19:42, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

@TheDJ: I'd love to come and hack in France. :) I'd only be able to afford it with a grant, though, as it's not exactly round the corner from my home in Sapporo. Plane fares from Japan are expensive, as well - last time I paid about 160,000 yen for a return trip to the UK, and that was the cheapest ticket. I should hopefully be able to wrangle the time off work, though, so I don't anticipate that being a big problem. — Mr. Stradivarius 00:44, 27 February 2015 (UTC)

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Tech News: 2015-10

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16:41, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Technical Barnstar
I don't think I've ever given you a barnstar, and I don't know why I haven't until now. I could give you one for many reasons, but this is crazy, you've created like 90% of WP modules. Nice work! :) AmaryllisGardener 15:41, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you! That isn't even the complete list - Module:Article history isn't on there yet, for example, and that's pretty mammoth. :) I should get round to updating the list some time... — Mr. Stradivarius 15:51, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Urvashi rautela content

Hi Stardivarius, This is prashant manager of urvashi rautela who handle her all online activities and promotion. The few content was wrong and mention for un necessary reason. The ref video was upload as youtube ref. Her official website is under progress. The Rautela was subsequently dethroned is unwanted news. My email id is prashant.biz@gmail.com and Urvashi Rautela <rautelaurvashi@gmail.com> is the actual id of urvashi if you want cross verify you can mail her directly. ImUrvashiRautela i am trying to recorrect and update unwanted news. You can suggest how to improvise and avoid unwanted content that affect urvashi as a women who is growing public figure in India. You can check Mar 2, 2015, 12.00AM IST TNN content in leading paper http://m.timesofindia.com/life-style/food/food-reviews/Ahmedabad-celebrates-the-best-of-food/articleshow/46419915.cms

{ Ahmedabad's most eagerly awaited annual event, the Times Food Awards 2015, just got bigger and better this year! On a pleasant evening, all roads led to the Courtyard by Marriott, Ahmedabad, the hospitality partner for the event. Bollywood heartthrob Ali Fazal and the gorgeous Urvashi Rautela, actress and Miss Universe India 2012, were the chief guests for the evening. } if she was dethroned in 2012 times of india wont mention in march 2 2015 as Urvashi Rautela, actress and Miss Universe India 2012.

So humble request please dont put back dethroned words again which affect somebody public figure career.

Regards Prashant