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--Aneesjameel (talk) 18:32, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Aneesjameel! Do you have any questions about editing Wik.ipedia.Pro? HouseBlaster (he/they) 19:05, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
Question from HomelessProphet1929 (04:17, 4 November 2024)
How do I add an info box, like the ones in the articles for countries? Thanks. --HomelessProphet1929 (talk) 04:17, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
- @HomelessProphet1929: using the visual editor, you can follow the directions at (infoboxes are templates). Let me know if you need help choosing which infobox template to use! Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 18:01, 4 November 2024 (UTC)
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Hey, HouseBlaster,
I was going to tag this category CSD C1 but, within seconds, you filled it with articles. How did you categorize these articles so fast? I assume you used some editing tool or was it a template you used? Always curious on how to edit more efficiently. Thanks. Liz Read! Talk! 02:41, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Liz! I used Help:Gadget-Cat-a-lot to facilitate the move from Category:Force-feeding to the people category. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 02:44, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, HouseBlaster. I've looked at Cat-a-lot several times over the years I've been editing but I found it too complicated to jump into. But I assume that this is also how some CFD closures are handled that aren't handled by a bot? Maybe I'll spend the time this week trying to figure it out. I've never gotten the hang of AWB either. Liz Read! Talk! 03:03, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- It is how I do most CFD closes which do not need the bot (usually because you only need to merge some entries). I found it fairly easy to learn; the documentation at Commons is really helpful. It can be a little buggy at times (it was built to handle files), but it gets the job done the vast majority of the time. I am happy to help with questions if you have them :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 03:07, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks, HouseBlaster. I've looked at Cat-a-lot several times over the years I've been editing but I found it too complicated to jump into. But I assume that this is also how some CFD closures are handled that aren't handled by a bot? Maybe I'll spend the time this week trying to figure it out. I've never gotten the hang of AWB either. Liz Read! Talk! 03:03, 5 November 2024 (UTC)
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I've contributed to tagging a lot of buildings into the demolition category on the understanding they were deliberately demolished. I completely disagree with the consensus that was reached at that discussion, but now it's closed, I'm one user and am unable to overturn it on my own. My suggestion would be to have a category for buildings that were demolished and another for buildings that were destroyed. I only noticed because of my watch list.
What do you recommend here? Could I start a new CfD? SportingFlyer T·C 05:00, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi SportingFlyer! The consensus in the discussion was that this tree should mirror Category:Buildings and structures by year of completion, and contain buildings destroyed by any cause whatsoever, including demolition. Your options include a fresh CFD (User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/massXFD is very helpful for mass nominations), though I would warn that the participants in the old discussion see the rescoping as a feature, not a bug. You could also create a new subcategory of the destroyed categories for intentional demolition, though I would consider self-CFDing one or two of those categories to ensure there is consensus for their existence before creating a massive tree. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 14:51, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- I did voice my displeasure on the page outside the closed discussion and someone else agreed with me. The problem is we just renamed a bunch of categories where every building would have been "demolished" but not "destroyed," so the "correct" thing to do would have been to rename the top category and then create a new set of subcats like we have for building collapses. I'm really frustrated by this sadly, though that has nothing to do with you! SportingFlyer T·C 16:28, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- I see you have filed Wik.ipedia.Pro:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 7#Category:Buildings and structures by decade of destruction. I will tag all of the subcategories for you :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 17:21, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- What is going on here? Is this just a reversion of the Wik.ipedia.Pro:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 October 29#Category:Buildings and structures by year of demolition closure? Liz Read! Talk! 19:56, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- SportingFlyer has filed a fresh CFD to reverse the already-closed CFD. Nothing has been reverted yet. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 19:57, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- What is going on here? Is this just a reversion of the Wik.ipedia.Pro:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 October 29#Category:Buildings and structures by year of demolition closure? Liz Read! Talk! 19:56, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- I see you have filed Wik.ipedia.Pro:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 November 7#Category:Buildings and structures by decade of destruction. I will tag all of the subcategories for you :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 17:21, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
- I did voice my displeasure on the page outside the closed discussion and someone else agreed with me. The problem is we just renamed a bunch of categories where every building would have been "demolished" but not "destroyed," so the "correct" thing to do would have been to rename the top category and then create a new set of subcats like we have for building collapses. I'm really frustrated by this sadly, though that has nothing to do with you! SportingFlyer T·C 16:28, 7 November 2024 (UTC)
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Chemical Loop Technologies
Hey,
I know the discussion was archived at a non-consensus. I was going back through the Project page and came across it again. After re-reading the inputs from @DMacks , specifically, I took another look at the articles in question. While I agree with DMacks that it would be more akin to a separations process on re-review (compared to my original assesment), it is still not a great descriptor, as DMacks point it out as well, because its not the exact same function as a adsorpition bed.
I went out and looked elsewhere to see if I could find anything regarding the topic name, which seems to be big in academic circles regarding Carbon Capture. I landed upon this article from the Royal Chem Society, with this specific quote:
"Although the term “chemical looping” was first minted by Richter and Knoche in 1983 in the context of reducing exergy loss in fossil fuel combustion,1 the concept of chemical looping (CL), i.e. decomposition of a chemical reaction into multiple sub-reactions facilitated by solid reaction intermediates, was investigated long before that. Owing to the pressing demand for carbon emissions reduction,4,5 chemical looping combustion (CLC) has been studied extensively over the past three decades as a new technology for power generation with integrated CO2 capture,6–22 as evidenced by more than 2400 peer-reviewed publications to date (based on the chemical abstracts service)."
From this, I think Im personally going back towards Category:Chemical processes for both things, but would rather see something related to carbon capture, environmental process, etc. to better describe it. As I said before, these specific topics seem to be very geared towards carbon capture and maximizing chemical process energy so little goes to waste in terms of energy, while also being a source of carbon capture.
I would really also like @DMacks input on this as a professor/academic of Chemistry regarding the literal reaction part of both CLC and CLR ChemicalBear (talk) 21:23, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi ChemicalBear! I am going to be very honest and say that I do not understand what you are saying (almost certainly due to my complete lack of formal training in chemistry!). Would you like the CFD to be reopened? If so, I would recommend filing a new CFD instead and pinging the previous participants. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 21:32, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi! I've reopened the topic in a new CFD here. I appreciate your honesty, I was just reaching out because you were last point-of-contact from that discussion! ChemicalBear (talk) 21:46, 8 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Amogelang22 on User talk:Amogelang22 (10:34, 9 November 2024)
Hello Can i ask How can create an article based on my culture --Amogelang22 (talk) 10:34, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- So who deleted it and why Amogelang22 (talk) 11:20, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- I do not see any deleted contributions on this account – did you have a different one? Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 15:05, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- i heard someone saying that the account contribution has been deleted Amogelang22 (talk) 15:32, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Well, that good news is that has not happened! Nothing has been deleted. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 15:34, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- okaythats good Amogelang22 (talk) 15:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- can I ask you a question Amogelang22 (talk) 15:44, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Of course! HouseBlaster (he/they) 15:45, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- why people are abusive to us as their fellow community members Amogelang22 (talk) 15:55, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- how did you start being a Wikimedia member Amogelang22 (talk) 15:57, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- You can read about my start at Wik.ipedia.Pro at :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 16:02, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Was it easy Amogelang22 (talk) 08:47, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Not super easy, but very rewarding! HouseBlaster (he/they) 16:16, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- How Amogelang22 (talk) 07:25, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- I used Help:Getting started, which has lots of helpful information! HouseBlaster (he/they) 15:39, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- How Amogelang22 (talk) 07:25, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Not super easy, but very rewarding! HouseBlaster (he/they) 16:16, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Was it easy Amogelang22 (talk) 08:47, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- You can read about my start at Wik.ipedia.Pro at :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 16:02, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- how did you start being a Wikimedia member Amogelang22 (talk) 15:57, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- why people are abusive to us as their fellow community members Amogelang22 (talk) 15:55, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Of course! HouseBlaster (he/they) 15:45, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- can I ask you a question Amogelang22 (talk) 15:44, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- okaythats good Amogelang22 (talk) 15:35, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Well, that good news is that has not happened! Nothing has been deleted. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 15:34, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- i heard someone saying that the account contribution has been deleted Amogelang22 (talk) 15:32, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
Biography of yourself
tell us about your self Life Amogelang22 (talk) 10:45, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Amogelang22 on User talk:HouseBlaster (16:01, 9 November 2024)
Can you help me with publishing My first story that I wrote 5 months ago --Amogelang22 (talk) 16:01, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- I cannot. This is an encyclopedia, not a place for stories. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 16:55, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Good baker on Top Chef Canada season 11 (16:36, 9 November 2024)
Hello who do I edit and make episode title cards --Good baker (talk) 16:36, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hello Good baker, and welcome to Wik.ipedia.Pro! You can edit whatever topics you like (as long as you do not have a conflict of interest with them). I am not sure what you mean by episode title cards. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 16:56, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- You know how you make a new page for a new season of a show and there’s an episode part that you edit and make the title cards so I’m wondering how do you do that Good baker (talk) 17:00, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Are you referring to the box at the right of the article which summarizes key information? I admit I do not regularly edit TV articles, but if you want to ask at Wik.ipedia.Pro talk:WikiProject Television they might be better able to assist you (WikiProjects are groups of editors who work on specific groups of articles – in this case, TV). Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 17:14, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- You know how you make a new page for a new season of a show and there’s an episode part that you edit and make the title cards so I’m wondering how do you do that Good baker (talk) 17:00, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
Question from Siraj Aizlewood (19:09, 9 November 2024)
Hi HouseBlaster didn't realise I'd get a mentor that's amazing, thank you.
I have an article I'd like to publish, but can see that the Contribute button is greyed out. I guess I have to "level-up" first?
Any chance i could send the article to you, and you could give me some pointers?
All the best,
Siraj --Siraj Aizlewood (talk) 19:10, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- To publish an article directly, you need to be "autoconfirmed" (which requires 4 days experience and 10 edits). You can use the article wizard to submit a draft before you are autoconfirmed. Once you have created your draft, I would be happy to give you some pointers. Best, HouseBlaster (he/they) 19:18, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
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Hello, HouseBlaster,
There were some speedy category renames yesterday (from U.S. Presidents categories to United States Presidents categories) and User:JJMC89 bot III should have recategorized all of the talk pages on Nov. 8th but it still hasn't and it's almost been 24 hours since the categories were moved. See Category:B-Class U.S. Presidents articles as an example.
Does it usually take this long or did something happen with the bot? Because all of the United States Presidents articles categories are empty right now. In the past, I've brought this question to the bot operator but they say that they created the bot but do not control how it is utilized with CFD requests. Just hoping you can make some magic edit to resolve this or tell me that I should give the bot more time to do its work. Thank you. Liz Read! Talk! 21:29, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hi Liz! Those categories are all populated by a template, which the bot cannot fix. (The bot is being updated soon to do this automatically, and I am very excited!) I made some updates to {{WikiProject United States}}, which will automatically fix the issue once the jobqueue catches up. Thank you for pointing this out :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 21:42, 9 November 2024 (UTC)
- Do you have some magic goggles to know when it's a template responsible for filling categories? Because I see to run into this fairly regularly, categories that suddenly go empty. I have a script installed that allows you to see when someone added or removed a page from a category but when this happens, there is just no information at all. Typically, this is because someone has tinkered with a template, creating an error but it can be hard to trace back what template it was when this happens. Thanks for the information. I came to the right admin! Liz Read! Talk! 22:26, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
- I make creative use of WP:HOTCAT to make the determination. If you go to Australia#footer, you can see "−" and "(±)" symbols next to
Geographical articles missing image alternative text
, which means that you can edit it with HOTCAT, and therefore is not added by a template.Coordinates on Wikidata
does not have those symbols, so you cannot edit it with HOTCAT, thus it is template-generated. To determine what template is the culprit, it is generally just a bit of guess and check, while making sure your guesses smart. In this case, I (correctly) guessed that we wanted {{WikiProject United States}} would have something to do with Category:B-Class U.S. Presidents articles. HouseBlaster (he/they) 00:07, 11 November 2024 (UTC)- It was also {{WikiProject United States Presidents}}. Gonnym (talk) 02:11, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- On the subject of templates and categories, HouseBlaster and Gonnym, do you know what changes would have caused all of the categories in Category:Native American multilingual support templates and some in Category:Wik.ipedia.Pro multilingual support templates to empty out? Was there a TFD discussion involved here? Liz Read! Talk! 20:30, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Yes. Almost all lang-?? templates are being deleted and replaced with {{Langx}}, see Wik.ipedia.Pro:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2024_September_27#Replace_and_delete_lang-??_templates. There really is no need to keep those categories 7 days. Gonnym (talk) 20:32, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- I have no idea, though perhaps Gonnym does. HouseBlaster (he/they) 20:33, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- Well, there's my answer! HouseBlaster (he/they) 20:33, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- On the subject of templates and categories, HouseBlaster and Gonnym, do you know what changes would have caused all of the categories in Category:Native American multilingual support templates and some in Category:Wik.ipedia.Pro multilingual support templates to empty out? Was there a TFD discussion involved here? Liz Read! Talk! 20:30, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- It was also {{WikiProject United States Presidents}}. Gonnym (talk) 02:11, 11 November 2024 (UTC)
- I make creative use of WP:HOTCAT to make the determination. If you go to Australia#footer, you can see "−" and "(±)" symbols next to
- Do you have some magic goggles to know when it's a template responsible for filling categories? Because I see to run into this fairly regularly, categories that suddenly go empty. I have a script installed that allows you to see when someone added or removed a page from a category but when this happens, there is just no information at all. Typically, this is because someone has tinkered with a template, creating an error but it can be hard to trace back what template it was when this happens. Thanks for the information. I came to the right admin! Liz Read! Talk! 22:26, 10 November 2024 (UTC)
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Template:Establishment category in country by century/resolve
Hi HouseBlaster, looks like you did a great job automating Template:Establishment category in country by century – thanks! However, you left Template:Establishment category in country by century/resolve still using the old parameters, and this is not mentioned in the documentation. E.g. [8] for usage.
Perhaps the neatest thing would be a separate version of /core with more resolving, and a switch in the main template to use that core instead if there was a new parameter resolve=yes
. Would you care to implement this, please? – Fayenatic London 12:51, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Happy to do that later today :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 14:07, 12 November 2024 (UTC)
- Update: it is not as easy as I thought it would be; I hope to do this Friday night (when I can dedicate a sustained period of time). Apologies for the delay. HouseBlaster (he/they) 01:51, 14 November 2024 (UTC)
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hello --Mahrukh zameer (talk) 09:16, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
- Hello, Mahrukh zameer, and welcome to Wik.ipedia.Pro! Let me know if you have any questions about Wik.ipedia.Pro, and I would be more than happy to assist :) HouseBlaster (he/they) 15:40, 16 November 2024 (UTC)
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