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	October '14		November '14		December '14|} Signpost Volume 20, Issue 7 — 2024-05-16 News and notes: Democracy in action: multiple elections Special report: Will the new RfA reform come to the rescue of administrators? Arbitration report: Ruined temples for posterity to ponder over – arbitration from '22 to '24 In the media: Deadnames on the French Wikipedia, and a duel between Russian wikis Op-Ed: Wikidata to split as sheer volume of information overloads infrastructure Comix: Generations Traffic report: Crawl out through the fallout, baby In order to Keep discussions centralized, and unless you request otherwise, any comments posted on my talk page will only be replied to here; I will watch talk pages where I have posted for replies there, and do not expect a reply here. Please sign and date your posts using four tildes (~~~~). New discussions start below old; you can start a new topic. If you wish to talk privately, you can Email me, but please notify me here because I only check my emails once a month or so. If you need a faster reply, or a more complex conversation, you can contact me on IRC. My nickname is Matthewedwards. I can be found in #wikipedia connect, #wikipedia-en connect, #wikipedia-en-help connect, or #wikipedia-en-admins connect whenever my status is "online" or "on IRC". Discussions are archived after three days of inactivity. Template:WikiProject Metal I'm not good with templates- I was changing it by comparing it to other similar banners. The main change (that LuciferMorgan asked me to make) was to add the 'list' class. I wasn't aware it was broken- I made the edit a long time ago. Could you possibly add the option for a list class for me? J Milburn (talk) 09:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC) Not really my forté, but I'll see what I can do. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 04:21, 7 October 2008 (UTC) It's already there. Just type {{WikiProject Metal| class=List}}. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 16:12, 7 October 2008 (UTC) I need your help. Urgent! Go to this page (I refer to the code, you must edit the page to view, of course); copy and paste all its content in the page of the template above, thanks. =P Cannibaloki 19:09, 9 October 2008 (UTC)  Done, I think. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 19:32, 9 October 2008 (UTC) Replace |BANNER_NAME = User:Cannibaloki/Sandbox2 to |BANNER_NAME = {{subst:FULLPAGENAME}} Cannibaloki 20:07, 9 October 2008 (UTC) Has a </includeonly> at the bottom of the template. Cannibaloki 20:12, 9 October 2008 (UTC)  Done? Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 21:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC) Yes, all done, thanks for help! =) Cannibaloki 22:34, 9 October 2008 (UTC) DTNG Intertitles Oh, thank you. Yes, the episode was good, not the best, but good... at least in my eyes. Unfortunately, only Part One was broadcast, so I'll be waiting another week for Part Two. Yes, I do have the new intertitle separate and I will add it as soon as possible. MaxisManiac247 (talk) 06:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC) Re: List of universities in British Columbia Yeah, Nova Scotia if you can please. Thanks! There are only those four: British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario, and Quebec. For the other provinces, they don't have enough universities for their own lists, so I've merged them into List of universities in Canada. Do you think it makes sense (and do you have the time?) to create a map containing the universities in that list – either all of them, or only the ones that aren't already in maps? Gary King (talk) 16:01, 9 October 2008 (UTC) The map looks weird at List of universities in Ontario. Gary King (talk) Today, 2:36 pm (UTC-4) OK, working on Quebec and NS now. Ontario looks weird wrt to what? Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 18:49, 9 October 2008 (UTC) There's an extra line break at the top and there should be a space between the text and the map. I'll work on this in a few minutes if you don't want to. Gary King (talk) 18:55, 9 October 2008 (UTC) If you don't mind. I don't really see it :/ Maybe after seeing the diffs I will. I made the same edit to {{BC Universities Map}}, too. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 18:59, 9 October 2008 (UTC) {{Nova Scotia universities map}} – very nice, thanks! Gary King (talk) 00:12, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Yep that's all of them. For List of universities in Canada, most of the dots would be on the east coast if you did it, with a few scattered in the middle. It's up to you to decide if you think it would look nice and could potentially be useful or if it shouldn't be done :) Gary King (talk) 20:59, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Re: DYK for Nintendo DSi I've still got six more that will appear on the main page soon :) Gary King (talk) 00:13, 10 October 2008 (UTC) Notice of request for deletion of editor Matthewedwards :) Matthewedwards, the editor you are, has been nominated for deletion. We appreciate your contributions. However, an editor does not feel that you satisfy Wikipedia's criteria for inclusion and has explained why in the nomination space. Your opinions on yourself are welcome; please participate in the discussion by adding your comments at User:GlassCobra/Editor for deletion#Matthewedwards and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit during the discussion but should not remove the nomination (unless you wish not to participate); such removal will not end the deletion discussion (actually it will). Thank you, and have a good sense of humor :). Speedy deletion of Homer Simpson (disambiguation) If you don't mind, I'd ask you to look at the history of this - it was an actual disambiguation page that got turned into a redirect and back. I can't see the deleted history, so I don't know if it was tagged by the same person who turned it back into a redirect again, but R3 (or, indeed, other redirect criteria) shouldn't be used as a way to mangle something into a speedy deletion when it was recently created as something other than a redirect. I'd appreciate you restoring this to the actual disambiguation page; you can certainly also list it for AfD at the same time if you think it ought to be deleted. Otherwise, I'm likely to put it up on DRV instead. Thanks in advance for reading and responding. — Gavia immer (talk) 16:02, 11 October 2008 (UTC) Hi. I did check the history of it before deleting, and saw that it used to be a disambig page, but it wasn't really necessary, as Wikipedia only has one article on Homer Simpson. The Homer from "Homer to the Max" doesn't have an article or need one, if anything he should be mentioned at Homer Simpson, but I'm not too familiar with character articles to be absolutely sure of that. Homer Simpson from the novel and film The Day of the Locust doesn't have an article either, but the book is linked to from Homer Simpson so if anyone was looking for that Homer, and went to The Simpsons's Homer article by accident, it is fairly easy to navigate to the article about the book. The dab page then became a redirect to Homer Simpson, changed back, changed again. I don't feel the disambig was necessary in this case, though if articles were made about The Locust's Homer or the other Simpsons Homer, I would say yeah, have it. When I deleted it, it was indeed a redirect to Homer Simpson, and after consulting with another admin, I deleted it as WP:CSD#R3 "a redirect based on an implausible typo". I understand that it wasn't a typo as such, but more an implausible phrase. I haven't restored it yet, just in case you change your mind and agree with my reasoning, but I'll be back on Wikipedia in about 2-3 hours from now. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 17:11, 11 October 2008 (UTC) It's good to know that you looked at the page history - as you know, that's always supposed to happen before speedy deletion, but often it doesn't. It seems like this was based on your judgement that the page wasnt't needed; it's fine to apply your judgement that way, and in practice anyone with deletion bits has to do it sometimes, so I have no problem with that; but in general you shouldn't substitute your judgement over that of the community when something is genuinely disputed (which this is). I have no problem with this being restored and immediately AfDed, if you want to do that; putting this up for community input is probably the way to go from here. However, I do ask that you restore it, either way. Thanks. — Gavia immer (talk) 17:47, 11 October 2008 (UTC) Ok, it's restored and AfDed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Homer Simpson (disambiguation) for an open discussion. Regards, Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 18:58, 11 October 2008 (UTC) Renominating FLCs I can renominate lists that didn't receive enough input immediately without prejudice right? — sephiroth bcr (converse) 04:32, 12 October 2008 (UTC) Sure. There was nothing that seemed to be outstanding from any of them, unfortunately they just didn't generate consensus either way so I decided to archive them. Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 07:12, 12 October 2008 (UTC) Fair enough. IMO, this one seemed within the margin of error, but that's fine. I'll just renominate the bunch. Cheers, — sephiroth bcr (converse) 07:14, 12 October 2008 (UTC) Yeah maybe. I mean, I don't have an issue with the list or the nominations, but I'd rather be sure that community consensus has been reached and I couldn't based on one support, a comment that refs check out, and a couple of other minor things that were commented on. I always say "There is no deadline", so I just figured it would be better to have it re-nominated. Next time it happens it might be best to just "restart" the way Sandy does at FAC by placing them back to the top of the list. What do you think? Matthewedwards (talk • contribs • email) 07:23, 12 October 2008 (UTC) That seems like a good idea. In these situations, the nominator is probably going to relist the nomination immediately, so this removes that problem. — sephiroth bcr (converse) 07:37, 12 October 2008 (UTC)