“ It depends on the type of spam. If it's bot-spam, then instant indefinite block. If the spam and the user name are linked, then it's a spam-only account and also gets indef'd. If it's an apparently real human who has linked their user page to something spam-ish, then I tend to remove the spam and use the {{spam}} template on their talk page and not block, at least initially. ”

“ I'm saying that we regularly get spambots creating a user or user talk page with some pretty dumb spam content here on enWS. And that we also regularly catch and block these by simply patrolling recent changes. Overall the volume we get here on enWS is very low. ”

“ Please don't create these unfinished in main namespace. If you want to undertake a progressive transcription like that, then create it in your user space in a sandbox. [This is not the first time this has been mentioned and you have a string of unfinished transcriptions sitting in Special:PrefixIndex/user:Richard_Arthur_Norton_ (1958-_) .] Of course the best practice when you have a scan of the text is to utilise the Index:/Page: namespace like everyone else is encouraged to do. ”

“ Also, if you are an admin with a personal stake in this conflict or very strong feelings about it, please leave admin actions that are at all related to it to other admins. We've seen otherwise intelligent and level-headed admins on other projects act on what they feel is a moral imperative but entirely outside policy. There may indeed be trolling or propaganda being perpetuated on-wiki that we need to manage, but if you have a personal stake or very strong feelings you are probably not going to be the best person to make the judgement call of where to draw the line. ”

“ I'm going to note here that I did delete Languageseeker's user page per their request, as I think this is fairly standard practice. What they want to do with their user page is their choice. But user talk pages, I agree, are a different matter. Languageseeker started two discussions at Wikisource:Proposed deletions about both their user and user talk pages. ”

“ I'd like for A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, Volume 1 to be moved to A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan/Volume 1, likewise A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, Volume 2 to A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan/Volume 2, and for the subpages of these pages to also be moved accordingly. ”

“ I am trying to transclude "The Queen Bee" to the page Grimm's Household Tales, Volume 1/The Queen Bee, but it says my action may be harmful. 192.107.137.242 17:27, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
Annoyingly, your edit was caught in a global filter because it appeared like vandalism (non-logged-in users removing large amounts of contiguous text are a common signature of vandalism at most wikis) . The good news is that you only need 10 edits to become an "established enough" editor for the filter to no longer apply. This is a global filter, so we can't change it immediately here. ”

“ We also have categories for entries called Category:25% for entries that are 25% transcribed or less. We even have a Category:0%. If you asked me if I had the text, rather than delete things I am working on, everyone would be happier. --RAN (talk) 21:09, 2 March 2021 (UTC) Comment To any admin restoring progressive transcriptions, I would ask that if you restore them to main namespace that they are then moved to user namespace for their completion. Easy for them to be moved back to main ns upon completion. ”

“ For this there is absolutely no need for checkuser.
I am not saying that there is never a need for checkuser, or that the enWS community (or even just myself personally) is opposed to using it when warranted. ”

“ I have also applied indef semi-protection on your user and user talk page. Feel free to ask for its removal here if you should ever become active on enWS (or for whatever other reason) . Xover (talk) 10:58, 3 January 2022 (UTC) Haha. Totally fine, i was curious what I did that might have done that. Thanks for setting it up. Andrzejbanas (talk) 18:32, 3 January 2022 (UTC) This section was archived on a request by: Beeswaxcandle (talk) 02:01, 11 March 2022 (UTC) Edit request for protected page
The following discussion is closed. ”

“ So if we mention we need wriggle room for the admin in use of the tool, and definitely allow real users to appeal on their user page (maybe mention {{unblock}}) . — billinghurst sDrewth 08:49, 26 September 2021 (UTC) I support having this as a reason to block. Having the basis in policy does not always need to result in its implementation, if another solution is available. ”

“ However, if we see lots of these hits, we should probably get the filter changed to allow edits if the wiki is a Wikisource and the edit contains "IP editors never get autoconfirmed, so that won't help here. Xover (talk) 17:34, 23 April 2022 (UTC) @192.107: if you give us the details (Index: link and relevant pages) we can transclude it for you. Alternately, it is really recommended to register a user account (entirely free, and you don't even need to provide an email address if you don't want to) . ”

“ This is a good idea, because the current (anti-) pattern of explicit DEFAULTSORTs makes it impossible to do this automatically in the header template (i.e. strip of "A/The" if present) . This cat gets us a small step closer to being able to strip most of them out as redundant. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 10:12, 17 January 2022 (UTC) @CalendulaAsteraceae also I have added the defaultsort parameter to {{header}}. The task now is to transition all the manual defaultsorts to either that parameter, or, for most (?) ”

“ Support knows where their towel is and will be nice to have some company in the CSS mines. Inductiveload—talk/contribs 22:23, 20 October 2021 (UTC) Support Great user and has my trust. Languageseeker (talk) 22:27, 20 October 2021 (UTC) Support PseudoSkull (talk) 23:32, 20 October 2021 (UTC) This is all very well, but the AN is not appropriate place to seek community support as not all members of the community are regularly here. ”

“ I do have an edit request, though—could you add | defaultsort = {{{defaultsort|{{SUBPAGENAME}}}}} to the header in {{A catalogue of notable Middle Templars, with brief biographical notices}}? Pages in that work had been putting manual DEFAULTSORTs on each page, and I removed that from the preload. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 02:32, 18 January 2022 (UTC) No, please don't do that. There is nothing wrong with individual defaultsort, and it was purposeful to not have it in the template. Having a hidden defaultsort can be problematic. ”

“ CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 08:33, 24 October 2021 (UTC) Script error: The function "missing_params_error" does not exist. This section was archived on a request by: Xover (talk) 18:03, 23 April 2022 (UTC) Some pages such as 2018 Hong Kong Policy Act Report started displaying a red error notice Script error: The function "missing_params_error" does not exist. ”

“ Good question. I'll fix that. —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 02:29, 23 August 2022 (UTC) @Xover done. New edit request for {{PD-US-no-notice}}: {{#invoke:PD-US-no-notice|PD_US_no_notice}}{{documentation}} —CalendulaAsteraceae (talk • contribs) 04:38, 23 August 2022 (UTC) @CalendulaAsteraceae: Done Xover (talk) 05:13, 23 August 2022 (UTC) I realized it would simplify a lot of code if I moved the PD_US_no_notice function over to Module:PD-US. Could I ask you to change the module over and then delete Module:PD-US-no-notice? ”