User talk:GhostInTheMachine/2025

Deletion discussion about Wrench size

Hello, GhostInTheMachine

Welcome to Wikipedia! I edit here too, under the username Significa liberdade and it's nice to meet you :-)

I wanted to let you know that I've asked for a discussion about the redirect Wrench size, created by you. Your comments are welcome at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 January 2 § Wrench size.

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Boxing record format of Daniel Dubois

It almost seems like you’re doing this on purpose, but you keep reverting every edit of the table to make it an upside down format. This may be the regular format for other tables on Wikipedia, but boxing records are supposed to follow the format of their reference boxrec. If you simply looked at any other boxing record of other boxers, e.g. Anthony Joshua, Deontay Wilder, you would see the correct table format. Joeee777 (talk) 12:41, 7 January 2025 (UTC)

Greetings, User:Joeee777. Please join in the discussion about this subject at WikiProject Boxing. Whilst I can see how User:GhostInTheMachine's edits may appear radical, there is actually a solution (sortable tables) which may please everyone. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 19:23, 10 January 2025 (UTC)

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Short descriptions

I am informed that Short Descriptions are a useful way to present list descriptions e.g. Draft:Outline_of_volcanoes#Types_of_volcanoes

I created a Short Description on List_of_people_associated_with_Balliol_College,_Oxford which adds some extra information to the page List of politicians associated with Balliol College, Oxford: namely that there are different categories of politician in the UK and the list also includes non-UK politicians. This is a useful addition, in my view, because it enables annotated links briefly describing the tabulated list. Instead of just being told there are politicians, we are told that there are upper and lower chamber politicians and, perhaps unexpectedly, politicians from other jurisdictions.

All the other Short Descriptions on the page have been allowed. I cannot see any material difference between these entries. Consistency requires allowing Politicans as well. For example, "Historians" links to List of historians and classicists associated with Balliol College, Oxford and uses the short description "Political, social, economic, colonial, modern, early modern, medieval historians and classicists".

Please take another look.

Cheers, John (( User:John Foley — 2025-01-15T13:32:53 ))

Thanks for drawing my attention to this. A Short description should not attempt to define the article's subject – see WP:SDNOTDEF. A Short description exists to clarify which article has been found by a search. So, none is a perfectly valid Short description when the article title is enough. This should always be the case for a list article. If a list article seems to need a Short description other than "none", then consider renaming the article to make the subject matter more clear. — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 10:28, 17 January 2025 (UTC)

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thanks for showing me input

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		Thanks for giving me input on my edits Shane O'Sullivan the 1 (talk) 00:49, 26 January 2025 (UTC)

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short description

Hi, I have started a discussion about "short description" of the depopulated 1948-villages on Talk:Sufla, please participate, cheers, Huldra (talk) 20:51, 4 February 2025 (UTC)

Watery shallowness

You changed a short-description change I made earlier today. I'd included the now-deleted word "shallow" from the article's lead, but found your edit summary amusing enough to say thanks "in person"! Bazza 7 (talk) 13:40, 6 February 2025 (UTC)

Happy Wikiversary! (Sorry if I'm late)

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Thanks for editing

I recently created the article Dynamo Gaming, and I want to make sure it meets Wikipedia’s notability and reliability standards. I’ve added some sources, but I’d like to know if there are any specific improvements I should make to ensure the article stays on Wikipedia.

Could you please review the article and suggest if Sarthak14331 (talk) 20:01, 10 February 2025 (UTC)

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Happy First Edit Day!

Hey, GhostInTheMachine. I'd like to wish you a wonderful First Edit Day on behalf of the Wikipedia Birthday Committee! Have a great day! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:48, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

P.S. I am so so sorry for the lateness! DaniloDaysOfOurLives (talk) 02:48, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Cinquecento Changing short description from "1500s cultural and artistic events of Italy" to "Italian culture and art of the 1500s"

See MOS - " the 1500s" means 1500 to 1509. Some (frankly rather sloppy) people use it for the whole century, but to avoid confusion we should stick to the more correct meaning. I've reverted your changes. Johnbod (talk) 19:09, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

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Page patrol request

Hello Ghost! I see you have made a few fixes to A. Lindemann (a swiss lawyer) page. Can this page be patrolled? Thx. (Sorry if this is not relevant to your talk page style). Valescences (talk) 19:25, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

Sorry, I am not a patroller and so cannot do that — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 19:51, 19 February 2025 (UTC)

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Vexatious accusations

Regarding your vexatious claim that my edit was 'non-constructive', please actually read the article itself. The dissolution date of the party is not given. It simply says it was dissolved after the 1968 elections. That is not necessarily in 1968. Number 57 23:12, 1 March 2025 (UTC)

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WP:SD numbers may not be right

In this edit, the "5 March 2025" counts in the first two columns are the same as in the row above. Is that what you intended? (File under: no good deed goes unpunished.) – Jonesey95 (talk) 17:14, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

Sigh. Ta. Forgot that I had to insert the new numbers twice — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 17:45, 6 March 2025 (UTC)

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Bold text in Trollers Gill

Hi GhostInTheMachine. Thanks for keeping an eye on the Trollers Gill article. When I put the incoming redirects in bold text, I was following MOS:BOLD where it says “Boldface is often applied to the first occurrence of the article's title word or phrase in the lead. This is also done at the first occurrence of a term (commonly a synonym in the lead) that redirects to the article or one of its subsections, whether the term appears in the lead or not (see § Other uses, below).” I have no particular view on whether it stays or not, but this was my rationale. --Northernhenge (talk) 20:52, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

Fair enough. I have put them back — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 20:58, 12 March 2025 (UTC)

March 2025

"Use real words rather than jargon, even if fairly common" – then you would have to change the short descriptions of every TV station article. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Not a problem — maybe take an hour — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 19:28, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

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Bella Brisel article

Hello GhostInTheMachine. Thanks for your polishing this new article. Just need your pro advise on the best way to keep the resent exhibition catalog in the literature list (#4) and also use it in a few notes in the article. Thanks Yuri Git (talk) 14:11, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:Bella Brisel

I will reply there — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 09:04, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

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American classical guitar music article

Just wanted to reach out and say thank you for the edits and updates on American classical guitar music, really appreciate your hard work and making sure it follows the correct process (which I had missed). Mickyfitz13 (talk) 09:40, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Template:Infobox badminton event

Hi, I saw your work on the WTT series articles, I assume those were all semi-automatic? I wonder if it is possible to efficiently find pages that use that template but are actually table tennis events, in case more wikidata items were affected in a similar fashion. Sohryu Asuka Langley Not Shikinami (talk) 12:38, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Semi-automatic — as in "done painstakingly by hand with 5 tabs open at once" . A search finds 28 others that misuse the badminton infobox. Category:World Junior Table Tennis Championships (23) has most (20?) of them, so could be a good place to start. Not sure how Wikidata is involved... — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 12:56, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Haha, I thought you had some "magic button" that fixes style issues in one click. For wikidata, see 2012 World Junior Table Tennis Championships for example, the "Local description" (from short description template) is "Table tennis tournament in India", but "Central description" is "badminton tournament", since a bot imported it from enwiki before some rando updated the local enwiki description. Sohryu Asuka Langley Not Shikinami (talk) 13:24, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

"Magic button"? I wish! This is mostly why over here on EN WP we ignore what Wikidata has in the Description — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 13:30, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

I tried a different search and found 151 table tennis articles using the badminton infobox. There are only 15 articles using the {{Infobox_table_tennis_event}} redirect (I only created it on 2 February) so I suspect that the next step is for me to create a real table tennis event infobox. Discussion here is limited to the two of us, so I have posted a comment at the Table tennis WikiProject — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 17:50, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much. A simple "badminton tournament" "table tennis" search on wikidata gives 81 results at the moment, can Shortdesc helper fix them or would that need to be done manually? Sohryu Asuka Langley Not Shikinami (talk) 02:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for your help :D

Thanks for your help on List of wars involving the 13 Colonies and the Illinois and Ohio Countries Ghost. I really worked hard on it. And your cleaning up the phraseology and the key makes it look even better. Thanks for the assist. (; Historyguy1138 (talk) 07:54, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

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On reverting 37.111.181.121's edit in page "Subject (grammar)"...

Wow! You beat me to it! I was just about to revert their edit. I even wrote a little thing on the person's talk page. And right when I was finished writing it and I went to go revert it, you had already done it.

Well, since you've recently edited on that page, I'm sure you've seen the edits I've recently done there. What do you think about the changes I made? Languagelover3000 (talk) 16:58, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

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Shortcuts for SD

I reverted your revert on the shortcuts I added, but please consider allowing those to stand. I do not think they are overly disruptive and I found them to be super memorable more than "cute", or at least that is what I was going for. Thanks mate. Iljhgtn (talk) 13:27, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

From Broskalitre

Hello @GhostInTheMachine, can I request that the page you recently edited and the page that I created name "Borova-Sviatohirsk-Lyman-Sloviansk-Siversk line offensivee" be added into the "List of military engagements during the Russian invasion of Ukraine"? If not, can you please tell me the problem and so you can help by editing the page? You are also warmly welcomed to edit the page if you think you can make more improvements to it or add more information. Broskalitre (talk 22:12, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

List of books on history of number systems

Hello @GhostInTheMachine, for the page you recently edited twice, please do not set the short description to "none." The short description defines the scope and intent of the list and should remain. You are otherwise invited to edit the page if you add new entries to the list. Thanks!Hazegrae (talk) 11:15, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

You may find it helpful to read Wikipedia:Short description and especially WP:SDNONE — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 20:24, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Sail plan

Hi GhostInTheMachine, a sail plan is both a drawing and the arrangement of sails of a given vessel, the latter being the more common usage of the term. Sincerely, HopsonRoad (talk) 22:40, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion

Hello. You have proposed to delete the article with the reason "Move to draft to allow further work". Do you want it to be moved to draftspace? You can do that yourself with the move button. That's something else than deletion. Geschichte (talk) 21:56, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

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Help

Hello ghost, I ask for your help, in this article i made Mayor of Denpasar and Vice Mayor of Denpasar The image displayed in the list always disappears when we slide it down. Can you fix it so it doesn't disappear anymore? Thank you Indonesianinfo2 (talk) 14:38, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

I think this is due to viewing the pages via a mobile. The pages look OK on a real computer. Try the "desktop" link at the bottom of the page — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 17:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Houghton-le-Side

I'm trying to understand why you reverted my edit to Houghton-le-Side as non-constructive. There are very few countries in the world who use miles, so indicating "a few kilometres" would help the vast majority of people in the world to understand where this is located. Had the article contained a specific number of miles, I would have used the Convert template to define the exact number of kilometres (British spelling since the article is British) but that wasn't specified in the article. Would you please explain why the edit is non-constructive, since it would appeal to many Wikipedia users, and please consider reverting your revert. Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 21:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

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List of books on history of number systems

Hi, Goodreads is not a valid review site. It is not reliable and that is well established. It is a consumer review site and is not used. Don't put it back. Anyway I've sent to to Draft. The whole unsourced. It needs 2-3 reviews per entry and they are not there. scope_creep^Talk 15:51, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Fair enough. Using a list of cites is fairly weird anyway. — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 15:59, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

Ping me if you need a hand to sort it. If you get it fixed, ping me and I'll will mainspace it. scope_creep^Talk 15:54, 1 May 2025 (UTC)

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Calendar predictions absolutely are astronomical predictions

all calendars are based on astronomical cycles of some sort. Anyhoo, doesn't bother me that much, just thought you should know. Serendi^podous 20:47, 14 May 2025 (UTC)

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Daniel Palmer (art historian)

Yes, many of the references in Daniel Palmer (art historian) are by him, but since the article is about him they’re essential in discussing his ideas. Your template leads me to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:NOTRS&redirect=no which I have read, and I don't see how it defines any of the references used here: none is 'self-published', all are from reputable peer-reviewed sources. Clearly inclusions of his chapters in books edited by others are important in conveying how others use his thinking. There are sufficient references amongst those that refer to him objectively. If I move all the references to his journal reviews of the artists mentioned in the text into the Publications section, then other editors will add requests for citations against those mentions. Can you advise please what you think will improve this article? In case it is your concern, let me assure you that I don't accept payment for Wikipedia articles, and I am not a close associate of the subject, Palmer. Thank you. Jamesmcardle (talk) 00:43, 20 May 2025 (UTC)

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Great Dismal Swamp maroons SD

I've gone and reverted your edit to Great Dismal Swamp maroons and I figure I aught to give you a bit more detail here. You initailly change the SD to "Descendants of escaped slaves in eastern US" after Elizabelle Grandy changed the SD "Escaped slaves living in the swamplands on Virginia & North Carolina's coastal plain & their descendants." who changed the SD from "Escaped slaves living in American swamplands"

Elizabelle Grandy and Mazdakiti, who was also involved in the recent SD changes have since been banned for sockpuppetry, see Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Bigfootsqaud

Anywho, the phrasing "Descendants of escaped slaves in eastern US" is misleading as it implies that the Great Dismal Swamp maroons are a comunity that still exists, which is something not supported by the article, and in fact contradicted, what with a paragraph talking about how they disbanded towards the end of the History section. DervotNum4 (talk) 22:47, 13 June 2025 (UTC)

We live in interesting times ... Thanks for taking the time to post details here, such is a rare thing and much appreciated. I will see what I can do to enhance my minefield detection script — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 08:15, 14 June 2025 (UTC)

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Explanation

Sorry, I suppose this was a bad idea. I did it so I could link to it from Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Carex species in Canada. 🌳 Balsam Cottonwood (talk) ✝ 07:32, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

Ah. I could not find any inbound link using the anchor, so felt that it was harmless to remove it. — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 09:23, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

It's fine, you don't have to put it back. 🌳 Balsam Cottonwood (talk) ✝ 09:26, 17 June 2025 (UTC)

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List of film and television productions aired or released in 8K

"Film and television productions in 8K" seems like an accurate short description. Periwinklewrinkles (talk) 10:07, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

List articles generally do not need a SD at all. See WP:SDDUPLICATE – avoid duplicating information that is already in the title — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 10:12, 16 July 2025 (UTC)

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The clean tables

Hi! I don't understand the purpose of the clean tables at List of shehus of Bornu and List of mais of Kanem–Bornu. The tables become a lot uglier without set percentages and the column with notes (especially in the mai one) takes up a lot of space this way, I don't see how it fits more screens better (they are not locked in specifix pixel sizes) and it does not seem to be a rule, looking at for example List of Norwegian monarchs, List of Roman emperors, List of Neapolitan monarchs, List of French monarchs, etc. Can you clarify so we don't go back and forth on this? Megartonius (talk) 08:49, 23 July 2025 (UTC)

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Richard Marcinko

Hey so, I edited the page for Richard Marcinko a few minutes in demonstration how quickly Wikipedia editors work. I have no sources regarding the person's origins apart from being Slovak. 77.243.30.25 (talk) 09:46, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

sure, nothing in the article showing Croatian descent, so I removed the category — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 11:16, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

Vandalism and not

This edit, which you reverted as vandalism, actually wasn't. It was unconstructive, and your reversion was otherwise appropriate, but not every nonconsructive edit is vandalism. Vandalism is explicitly and obviously intended to damage the encyclopedia. Just letting you know for the future. :) - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 23:02, 28 July 2025 (UTC)

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You are a rockstar. The page for theatere looks incredible Jacquelinelove (talk) 08:55, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

Please help if u get bored

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?create=Create+new+article+draft&editintro=Template%3AAfC+draft+editintro&preload=Template%3AAfc+preload%2Fdraft&summary=--+Draft+creation+using+the+%5B%5BWP%3AArticle+wizard%5D%5D+--&title=Draft%3AShelby+Mackay#/editor/all Jacquelinelove (talk) 08:57, 10 August 2025 (UTC)

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Finham

Hello Ghost i would like to tell you that the language Finhamish spoken in Finham, Coventry is in fact a real language Ei.hatla (talk) 08:41, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

I am sure that you would like to — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 16:17, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

what Ei.hatla (talk) 16:27, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

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CS1 error on Emma Wray

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User:GhostInTheMachine/SortWhatLinksHere.js

Hey GITM, I was wondering if you could extend that script to also cover search results, e.g. [1].

It could be a new script, or just wrap the functionality in the existing script.

Thanks. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 13:26, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

The current sort options in search exclude the option to sort by page name. Is that what you are after? Should the sort be within namespace or just by article name? Do you want this to always be the active or to have a "Sort now" button at the top of the search results? — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 16:42, 31 August 2025 (UTC)

By namespace then by page name would be ideal. Always active would be my preference, or at least active by default. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 22:11, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

Ping? Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:52, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

— GhostInTheMachine ^talk 08:13, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

"seems to be working, but I am currently on a bus"... well SortWhatLinksHere works flawlessly. But the search result still don't sort. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 08:25, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

@Headbomb: Try adding User:GhostInTheMachine/SortSearchResults.js to your monobook.js. It seems OK for me, but is under-tested on other skins and user preferences. Please let me know how it goes — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:25, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

This didn't work, but this does! Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 01:28, 5 September 2025 (UTC)

@Headbomb: Sufficient? Needs something more? Suggestions? — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 17:45, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Like I said, the first way didn't work, but the second does. Not sure if I made a mistake with the first way, but the second way is fine by me. As far as I can tell every thing works the way it should. Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 18:23, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

Short descriptions

Hello, please make sure to read the guidelines you're citing. According to WP:SDNONE, this edit was not helpful:

The short description "none" should be used sparingly, and only where the entirety of the title will be reasonably clear to English-speaking readers worldwide. Bear in mind that readers outside your own country or culture may never have come across terms that to you are extremely well-known. Rather than using "none", try where you can to construct a short description that imparts useful information.

A decision on whether to use "none" should always be based on the comprehensibility of the words used in the title, and not on the form of the title. Articles should be assessed on their own merits, and editors using semi-automated tools to write short descriptions must never assume that all articles with a title of a particular form (e.g., "List of x") should be treated in the same way.

— W.andrea (talk) 16:47, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

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Table column widths in band member lists

Hello! I've been creating a lot of band member lists recently, e.g. List of Cynic band members and List of Agent Steel band members, and I can see you've been editing the column widths of the tables. Is this a manual of style recommendation from Wikipedia or something? I think it looks awful without fixed column widths, but I'm not going to revert your edits without asking first as I'm sure you had a reason. Thanks :) Andre666 (talk) 06:32, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

The problem with setting widths on table columns is that whatever is set will always be wrong for some users. Percentage widths added to help on narrow screens look rubbish on wide screens. Same the other way round. Using fixed pixel widths is still a problem, there are so many combinations of device, browser, zoom factor and wiki skin that any specific value cannot be OK for all users. Using widths in ems is generally safer, but again cannot be OK for all users. The best solution is then to not specify column widths at all. Since the browser has available all of the details of the device, zoom factor, personal preferences and the like, it is best equipped to make the formatting decisions. — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 08:36, 11 September 2025 (UTC)

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