User talk:Rotpunkt

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...for cleaning up some of the climbing bios. :) -Nathan Johnson (talk) 14:31, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just created Daniel Woods. Yes, the sport climbing articles on en.wiki are poor. :( -Nathan Johnson (talk) 20:43, 11 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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David Lama (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)

added a link pointing to Austrian

IFSC Climbing European Championships (check to confirm | fix with Dab solver)

added a link pointing to Andrew Earl

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Don't label good faith edits as vandalism. It will get you blocked. -Nathan Johnson (talk) 16:00, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

• This is (partly) true. See WP:VANDAL, but "will get you blocked" is not a given. But it's in bad form and does not promote collegiality. Drmies (talk) 17:00, 21 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My name is Nathan Johnson. My username is User:Nathan Johnson. I would respectfully ask that you use either one of those and not shorten it to "Nathan". -Nathan Johnson (talk) 00:28, 23 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I notice from your contributions that while I was, once again, taking a break from editing rock climbing related articles, neither were you. As soon as I start editing one rock climbing article (rock climbing) you miraculously return to editing. I'll assume good faith that it's simply a coincidence. However, there are hundreds or thousands of articles on climbing. Is there any way you could allow me to edit one of them without you hounding me? If you wish to edit collaboratively, I'm okay with that. But all you seem to do is tell me I'm wrong without offering any constructive criticism. I don't appreciate that. -Nathan Johnson (talk) 22:38, 2 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Sorry; my mistake. So long as you have <span class="geo">52.483056; -1.893611</span>, all is good. However, please do not use |name= inside infoboxes (or other templates which emit their own microformat), unless you also apply this fix. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:54, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Pigsonthewing: Hi, I don't understand why you have modified Template:Coord/link... it's unused. --Rotpunkt (talk) 13:11, 31 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

In reply to Wikipedia talk:Lua/Archive 2#Duplicated template parameters, starting October 23rd, pages with that problem will be listed in Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. Jackmcbarn (talk) 04:00, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Jackmcbarn: Hi, very nice, thanks. I have only a question: let's say I want to use a bot for fixing a specific template inside this category. I have for example the template XYZ and a related category called "Articles using template XYZ". Can I intersect (with catscan) "Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls" with "Category:Articles using template XYZ" ? In this way I could get the specific list of pages for the bot to work on. --Rotpunkt (talk) 09:24, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I don't see much of a point to "Category:Articles using template XYZ" since you could just look at WhatLinksHere transclusions for the template instead of it, but yes, it should work. Jackmcbarn (talk) 11:58, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Jackmcbarn: Ok thanks. Then, how can I get the intersection between WhatLinksHere and "Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls"? Let's say "Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls" will contain 300.000 pages and template WhatLinksHere shows that XYZ is used in 100.000 pages. How can I get the intersection? The intersection may be only of 1000 pages and I would like to run the bot only on those 1000 pages. In other words: it would be important to have a way to filter the category "Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls" on a per-template basis. --Rotpunkt (talk) 12:24, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

This will do that:

select page_namespace,page_title from categorylinks
inner join templatelinks on(cl_from=tl_from)
inner join page on(cl_from=page_id)
where cl_to='Pages_using_duplicate_arguments_in_template_calls'
and tl_namespace=10 and tl_title='XYZ';

Note that this will yield false positives, since just because a page has a duplicate argument and uses a certain template doesn't necessarily mean that the duplicate argument came from that template. Jackmcbarn (talk) 14:06, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Jackmcbarn: Thanks a lot. I thought I would not be able to use the db with tracking categories. About: << a page has a duplicate argument and uses a certain template doesn't necessarily mean that the duplicate argument came from that template >>, right, my fault. --Rotpunkt (talk) 14:16, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid there's no way to do that currently. The code in the Disambiguator extension doesn't "follow redirects", and I'm not sure if it's possible to make it do that without unacceptably degrading performance. (Or it might be possible; this is not my area of expertise, I wanted this feature myself badly enough to figure out how to create the patch you linked, but don't know much apart from that.) Filing a task in Phabricator about this is probably not a bad idea. :) Matma Rex talk 21:49, 28 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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