User talk:Derpdart56

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Welcome to Wikipedia, Derpdart56! I'm Desertborn and an active editor here. Thank you for your changes. I just wanted to say hi and welcome you to Wikipedia! If you have any questions check out Wikipedia:Questions, or leave a message on simple talk. I know you've already been around for a bit, but were never welcomed before so thought I would. I hope you like Wikipedia and decide to stay. Here are some pages that you might find helpful:

• Introduction
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Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that should automatically produce your username and the date after your post. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Desertborn (talk) 20:13, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

Thanks for the introduction! Derpdart56 (talk) 20:19, 26 September 2019 (UTC)

We are called 'Simple' for a reason...

Your new page cardinal numeral is an exact copy of the article on En wiki. Now, if we wanted to do that, we would arrange for a bot to do it, wouldn't we? I mean, we're not complete idiots...

What you need to do is to make the language simple enough to be understood by a ten-year old. You should do this before putting the page up on the wiki. For some editors, a sub-page of their user-page is a good idea. Anyway, you need to stop copy-pasting pages from En onto this wiki. I leave it as it is for the moment so you can see the point. Macdonald-ross (talk) 07:36, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Now I changed it. Macdonald-ross (talk) 15:36, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Sorry. Won't happen again. Derpdart56 (talk) 16:01, 3 October 2019 (UTC)

Warning users

Hi, glad to see that you are settling in over here. When warning users next time with warning templates (such as {{uw-vandalism1}}), please substitute the template instead by adding subst: before the template name:

{{subst:uw-vandalism1|Article title}}

When you substitute a template, what happens is that you cause a copy of the template text (the entire warning message) to be placed on the page, instead of merely a reference to a template ({{uw-vandalism1}}). You can see the difference by going to these two revisions, and clicking "change this page" to view the page's wikicode: [1] [2]. Alternatively, if you prefer, Twinkle also has functionality to warn users. I see that you have used Twinkle to welcome users already; the "warn" tab above will open the interface for leaving warning messages to users.

Feel free to drop me a message on my talk page if you have any queries. Chenzw  Talk  09:13, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Okay. Thanks for the tip. Derpdart56 (talk) 14:33, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

Quick deletion of Bates family

The page you wrote, Bates family, has been selected for quick deletion. If you think this page should be kept, please add {{wait}} below the line {{QD}} and say why on the talk page. If the page is already gone, but you think this was an error, you can ask for it to be undeleted. You can find more information about the reason here. Derpdart56 (talk) 21:22, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

About the welcome

Oh, thx for welcoming me. Great to see you dealing with spam with deletion requests. Keep up the good work. Make sure that you report this to an active admin so that they can decide whether or not to debate or just delete it. Personally, if I was an admin, I'd delete it, because it lacks content, no sources and just a bunch of nonsense. --Auri1999 (talk) 20:09, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Oh, thx for suggesting that. I will use Twinkle from now on. --Auri1999 (talk) 20:12, 21 October 2019 (UTC)

Relay Ball (Sport)

I am the true creator of Relay Ball I would like it up and running please on Wikipedia I like Wikipedia and actually I won’t misuse it. Relayball47 (talk) 19:30, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Alright, but you should get an en wiki article first. Derpdart56 (talk) 20:47, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

How do I do that? Relayball47 (talk) 20:49, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

Go to the english wikipedia, and create Relay Ball (sport). Derpdart56 (talk) 20:51, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

For future reference, it is never a good idea to give the above advice. We don't base our articles off of the English Wikipedia, and as such having an article on Enwiki (or any other project) is not a prerequisite for being notable here. Also, this is an editor who has dozens of accounts, all blocked, used to spam Relay Ball. Best, Vermont (talk) 20:55, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

@Vermont:That was my mistake. I did not know the person's past, so I trusted them. Thanks for the heads up about this, though. I will QD any articles about Relay ball. Derpdart56 (talk) 21:02, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

wait

please wait for deletetion the page Alecxander Bove is not yet complete adding now — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.141.174.115 (talk • contribs)

Ok, I won't. Just remove it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Derpdart56 (talk • contribs)

Your revert on Food

FYI your revert on Food actually restored vandalism even though it fixed the blanking. I think the vandal was trying to game the system to get their vandalism to stay. I've restored an earlier version prior to any of the vandalism taking place. But thought I would mention...sometimes its worth checking prior edits (if recent) before restoring a version. Desertborn (talk) 17:49, 24 October 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Introduction

The page explicitly allows test edits for editors new to the encyclopedia, so more leeway tends to be given to anonymous editors (just like the sandbox). The same goes for Wikipedia:Student tutorial. Of course, libellous or offensive material should still be reverted on sight. Chenzw  Talk  02:07, 26 October 2019 (UTC) Oh. Sorry, didn't know that. Thanks for the heads up. --Derpdart56 (talk) 02:43, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

News

Hi there, if you'd like, I can set up a way for you to get the news out to more people and help with making it an actual, community accepted simple english news article. Thank you. rollingbarrels (talk) 00:15, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Also, please leave a talkback on my talk page after responding, thanks. rollingbarrels (talk) 01:05, 19 February 2020 (UTC)

Eh, it's more of my own side project. Derpdart56 (talk) 13:46, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

RfD nomination of Nintendo DS accessories

An editor has requested deletion of Nintendo DS accessories, an article you created. We appreciate your changes, but the nominator doesn't believe that the article meets Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination (see also "What Wikipedia is not").

Please comment on the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Requests for deletion/Requests/2020/Nintendo DS accessories and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~).

You may also change the article during the discussion to address the nominator's concerns. But you should not remove the requests for deletion template from the top of the article; such removal will not end the deletion debate. Thank you very much. --sithjarjar666 ^{(my profile | my contribs | speak to me)} 20:44, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-43

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 20 October. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 21 October. It will be on all wikis from 22 October (calendar).

Future changes

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on 27 October around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [3]
• In the AbuseFilter extension, the rmspecials() function will be updated soon so that it does not remove the "space" character. Wikis are advised to wrap all the uses of rmspecials() with rmwhitespace() wherever necessary to keep filters' behavior unchanged. You can use the search function on Special:AbuseFilter to locate its usage. [4]
• Some gadgets and user-scripts use the HTML div with the ID #jump-to-nav. This div will be removed soon. Maintainers should replace these uses with either #siteSub or #mw-content-text. A list of affected scripts is at the top of phab:T265373.

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16:31, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-44

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

• You will be able to read but not to edit the wikis for up to an hour on October 27 around 14:00 (UTC). It will probably be shorter than an hour. [5]
• Last week, links to "diffs" from mobile watchlists and recentchanges were linking to page-revisions instead of diffs. This has now been fixed. [6]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• Since the introduction of the interface administrators user group in 2018, administrators couldn’t view the deleted history of CSS/JS pages. Now they can. [7]
• There was a problem with the Change Tags. The software would apply the "Reverted" tag to any page actions such as page-protection changes if they came directly after a reverted edit. This has now been fixed for new edits. [8]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias in November. Another announcement will be made once the date is finalized. [9]

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17:38, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-45

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• You can no longer read Wikimedia wikis if your browser uses very old TLS. This is because it is a security problem for everyone. It could lead to downgrade attacks. Since October 29, 2020, users who use old TLS versions will not be able to connect to Wikimedia projects. A list of browser recommendations is available. All modern operating systems and browsers are always able to reach Wikimedia projects. [10]
• There is a new automatic tracking category available: Pages with non-numeric formatnum arguments. It collects pages which use the {{formatnum}} parser function with invalid (non-numeric) input, e.g. {{formatnum:TECHNEWS}}. Note that {{formatnum:123,456}} is also invalid input: as described in the documentation, the argument should be unformatted so that it can be reliably and correctly localised. The tracking category will help identify problematic usage and double-formatting. The new tracking category's name can be translated at translatewiki. [11]

Changes later this week

• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from November 3. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from November 4. It will be on all wikis from November 5 (calendar).
• Administrators and stewards will be able to use a special page (Special:CreateLocalAccount) to force local account creation for a global account. This is useful when account creation is blocked for that user (by a block or a filter). [12]
• The Reply tool will be offered as an opt-in Beta Feature on most Wikipedias on November 4. This change excludes the English, Russian, and German-language Wikipedias, plus a few smaller Wikipedias with special circumstances. You can read the help page and the troubleshooting guide for more information. [13]

Future changes

• A discussion has been restarted about using a Unicode minus sign (− U+2212) in the output of {{formatnum}} when it is given a negative argument. [14]
• In the future IP addresses of unregistered users will not be shown for everyone. They will get an alias instead. There will be a new user right or an opt-in function for more vandal fighters to see the IPs of unregistered users. There would be some criteria for who gets the user right or opt-in. There will also be other new tools to help handle vandalism. This is early in the process and the developers are still collecting information from the communities before they suggest solutions.

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16:09, 2 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-46

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• You can see reference previews. This shows a preview of the footnote when you hover over it. This has been a beta feature. It will move out of beta and be enabled by default. There will be an option not to use it. The developers are looking for small or medium-sized wikis to be the first ones. You can let them know if your wiki is interested. [15]
• From November 16 the categories will not be sorted in order for a short time. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the internationalisation library. They will use a script to fix the existing categories. This can take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [16][17]

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15:50, 9 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-47

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Listings on category pages are sorted on each wiki for that language using a library. For a brief period on 16 November, changes to categories will not be sorted correctly for most languages. This is because the developers are upgrading to a new version of the library. They will then use a script to fix the existing categories. This will take a few hours or a few days depending on how big the wiki is. You can read more. [18][19]

Changes later this week

• If you merged two pages in a namespace where pages can't redirect this used to break the merge history. This will now be fixed. [20]
• The new version of MediaWiki will be on test wikis and MediaWiki.org from 17 November. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis and some Wikipedias from 18 November. It will be on all wikis from 19 November (calendar).

Future changes

• The Community Wishlist Survey is now open for proposals. The survey decides what the Community Tech team will work on. You can post proposals from 16 to 30 November. You can vote on proposals from 8 December to 21 December.

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15:37, 16 November 2020 (UTC)

Tech News: 2020-48

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Recent changes

• Timestamps in Special:Log are now links. They go to Special:Log for only that entry. This is how timestamps work on for example the history page. [21]

Changes later this week

• There is no new MediaWiki version this week.

Future changes

• The Wikimedia Cloud VPS hosts technical projects for the Wikimedia movement. Developers need to claim projects they use. This is because old and unused projects are removed once a year. Unclaimed projects can be shut down from 1 December. Unclaimed projects can be deleted from 1 January. [22]

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17:19, 23 November 2020 (UTC)