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Before I revert your recent edit to Anderson Mill, Austin, Texas, please explain to me how that edit actually improves that article. TerraFrost (talk) 11:59, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Your edit history shows that you've been active since I made this post and have none-the-less chosen not to respond to it, so I've gone ahead and reverted your edit to the following:

- Anderson Mill, Austin, Texas

- Brentwood, Austin, Texas

- Crestview, Austin, Texas

Maybe if I better understood your goal in removing those maps we could find some common ground. TerraFrost (talk) 20:26, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@TerraFrost: sorry, was NOT ignoring you. Just too many balls in the air right now. The goal I was trying to achieve is to get away from using maplink in an infobox as those should really be using Infobox Mapframe which is built-in. In the cases you identified, the boundary information is stored in an uncommon way (not in OpenStreet or on WikiData) so my edits were actually detrimental. I agree with your reverts. Appreciate you taking the time to message me, asumming good faith and not just rage reverting. If you find any others like this, you have my blessing (not that you need it) to revert them. -- Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 21:18, 24 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

So I guess to convert it to use Infobox Mapframe I can add a link to the geojson map file on commons to the wikidata entry under property P3896 (geoshape). Sadly, I have no idea how to do that 😔 Like I guess that's prob how The Domain (Austin, Texas) is getting it's data but idk 🤷‍♂️. I've been adding stuff using maplink-road|from=Crestview Neighborhood (Austin, Texas).map 'cause that just makes more sense to me than the whole wikidata approach.

I'll ask on Wikipedia talk:Village pump (technical).

Thank you for the feedback! Hope you have a great Christmas! TerraFrost (talk) 03:21, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Been working with mapframes for months and they still confuse me... So much to learn. If you figure out the process for converting .map to wikidata, PLEASE let me know! Merry xmas! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:24, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've made some progress! So you can get to the wikidata entry from the Tools menu of the wikipedia article and then clicking on "Wikidata item" at the bottom. Then do Ctrl + F and look for "add statement". In the property text input of the newly added div block, type in "geoshape". A new text input will appear to the right, after you do that. You can copy / paste the from value from maplink-road to that text input but you'll need to prepend it with Data:. After doing that I can click on the revision of yours that I reverted and I can now see the polygon, whereas before, I could not. The one thing I don't like about it, right now, is that the location pin is appearing on the map as well. Like I feel like the polygon eliminates the need for the location pin.

idk if that helps you or not. I can do screenshots or make a vid if that'd help! (altho if I were to make a vid or screenshots idk where the best place to post them would be; that kind of content isn't suitable for inclusion in a wikipedia article and that's the criteria by which I judge whether or not I upload something to commons..) TerraFrost (talk) 03:35, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That is AWESOME! Set |mapframe-marker=none and the marker shall vanish! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:38, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Got it - thanks! I'll try to update the other two pages as time permits and then I'll go review the other maps that I've added to other infoboxes (I think Navajo Nation and Zion National Park are my best ones), and see what I can do for those! Thanks! TerraFrost (talk) 03:42, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Keep up the great work! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:42, 25 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The Taichirō Motoe article is another example where the nationality parameter would not only be useful, but is necessary. A Wikipedia user looking only at the infobox would think that he is American, yet he's Japanese, as stated in the text. Why are we creating an infobox that blatantly misleads our readers? We must ask again what was wrong with the policy that lasted (successfully) for years ... use the nationality parameter only when it avoids confusion? Truthanado (talk) 20:34, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My talk page is not the place for this discussion. This has been debated at MULTIPLE RFCs. Your issue with the consensus that has been reached, not with me. If you want to change it, raise the issue on the talk page of the relevant Infobox (not sure what you mean by "Userboxes"?). Even if I were to 100% agree with you and reverse my position on this issue, that wouldn't matter as there is a MUCH broader consensus to consider (see the multiple previous RFCs). So once again, if you have an issue, raise it on the template talk page, not on my talk page. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 21:56, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Related to a previous discussion we had about multiple people in one infobox. Template:Infobox esports duo was just created for something like that. Gonnym (talk) 20:34, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

These are not conflicting. It is actually expected that both get used in some countries where call signs are assigned but not primary to branding, e.g. Australia. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 07:24, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

When you get to doing this at {{Infobox television station}}, I actually am trying to extirpate some ancient aliases that were preserved in this template. The tough ones I'd want to convert are |homepage= (alias for |website=) and |HAAT= (alias for |haat= — hard to case-sensitive search for this). The others should be gone from all uses now — I just did that today. Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 07:30, 6 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I have already twice asked you to stop leaving me templated warnings about infobox parameters (diff, diff, ) and yet you did it again today, just four minutes after I made an edit. I'm grateful that you spend time patrolling changes to infoboxes, and I appreciate the time you spend improving the project. I must say though that templating experienced editors after you've been asked not to is not an improvement to the project. I have asked not to received the templated warnings, and there is no policy that requires you to deliver them. I'd also ask you to practice WP:AGF and acknowledge that an experienced editor will likely clean up any inadvertent mistakes within a few minutes of making them. Dropping templated warning messages repeatedly, just a few minutes after an inadvertent mistake, is uncollegial. I hope my request comes through sufficiently clearly. Thank you. Dclemens1971 (talk) 14:34, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User:Dclemens1971 I will do my best not to template you again. I am not going to promise it won't happen though. I will say when you repeatedly introduce errors on pages, you don't really have the I'm an experienced upeditor leg to stand on. Previewing your edits is a pretty basic thing... Now I don't always preview my edits either. But when I make mistakes, which absolutely happens, and a another user takes the time to not only fix my error, but also to track me down and notify me about the issue, rather than getting upset that they have "tempalted a regular", my attitude and response is "thanks for taking the time to notify me of the mistake I made." I would encourage you to come down off your high horse of "I'm an experienced editor". You are asking me to remember you username and/or take the time to scroll through your page to see if you have previously asked me not to template you, on top of notifying you about the mistake that you have made.

As I said, I will do my best not to template you again, but the far easier solution here is to stop repeatedly inserting invalid parameters because you don't take the time to learn how infoboxes work and to preview you edits, as an "experienced" editor should know. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:18, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I know very darn well how infoboxes work; I'm detecting a condescending tone. As I have mentioned before, I am often updating them, usually by adding photos in batches, which means I am going through and working with many different infobox types that have annoyingly different styles for how the parameter of a caption is labeled. When you template me four minutes after I have updated the infobox, you have not given me a reasonable chance to go back through my many open tabs and check that everything was formatted correctly, which I do, even if my timing is not to your satisfaction. Editors work in different ways and dropping level 1 warning templates repeatedly after four minutes is more likely to create conflict than it is to improve the project. If I were leaving bad parameters for hours or days, sure, you'd have a point. But I'm not. Thanks for understanding and thanks in advance for honoring my request. Dclemens1971 (talk) 23:31, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I don't think this edit is needed, since the "no" is noincluded. Can you explain your logic? I may be missing something. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:41, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

this is why you don't edit while tired. I won't try to explain what I was thinking there. Undid it. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:10, 8 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Dcw2003 (talk)dcw2003 Regarding your recent edits to Lauri Siering when you modified the page, you introduced unknown parameters. Just because you specify |some_param=some_variable does not always mean that variable will display. The |some_param= must be defined in the template. You can look at the documentation for the template you are using but it is also helpful to use the preview button before you save your edit; this helps you find any errors you have made and ensure that the values you have added are displaying correctly. Below the edit box is a Show preview button. Pressing this will show you what the page will look like without actually saving it. It is strongly recommended that you use this before saving. Note I have likely fixed the error by now so check the history of the page to see how it was fixed. If you have any questions, contact the help desk for assistance. Thank you. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:04, 10 January 2026 (UTC); Not sure I follow what I need to do to address this issue; I have read the page history, and am not sure how you fixed the problem. Can you give me a better idea of what to do other than hit the preview button? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dcw2003 (talk • contribs) [reply]

@Dcw2003: If you preview your edit here you will see a big red warning at the top of the page saying Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox swimmer with unknown parameter "events". Hope that helps... --Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:57, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

So you're saying events should not be used as a parameter in the infobox!!!

Thanks!! Hate to get you involved, but do you think it is ok to reference newspaper articles in wiki articles. I've added a link to them, but the link may not work if the reviewer doesn't have a newspapers archive, particularly newspapers.com (which I use). Without newspapers, one is very limited as to what can be written about more obscure Olympians like Siering. I prefer to use website articles but it greatly limits the depth of information I can provide. Many writers used newspaper archives, but not everyone has them and therefore would have trouble linking to the articles without an online archive like newspapers.com.

My understanding is we can used newspaper articles, even from newspaper archives. I'm adding links to these articles, and I've always included detailed, reference information, but not included links, since I thought only readers with newspapers.com com could use the links from newspapers.com. If they're skilled, they should be able to use any newspaper archive...........but newspaper archives aren't free of course. I pay around $100 a year, possibly more for newspapers.com. But I've gotten relatively skilled at using it. Its much more work than finding online references. Dcw2003 (talk) 00:12, 11 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi @Dcw2003, I'm coming in late but I'd like to point you to my summary page on clipping from newspaper archives. There are ways with the three major US archive services, Newspapers.com included, to create clippings that then can be shared and archived and viewed by non-subscribers. (talk page stalker) Sammi Brie (she/her · t · c) 02:30, 22 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Howdy, and thanks for your ongoing infobox work.

It looks like the JWB script used for some of yesterday's mapping-related updates removed a few {{hidden end}} templates further down in the bodies of articles. Examples are Kent County, RI, Kharkiv, and Kilgore, TX.

I've restored the template in those three articles but figured I'd give you a heads-up in case it's possible to tweak the script to avoid future removals.

Thanks! — SirOlgen (talk) 19:35, 12 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Facepalm User:SirOlgen thank you for bringing this to my attention! Greatly appreciate it! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:37, 13 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I disagree with the decision to close this so soon. Including the nominator, there were three delete !votes, and two keep !votes (including mine). @Vanilla_Wizard makes a good point that the sidebar is much easier to navigate for readers, and the argument that the sidebar takes up too much real estate is an argument against sidebars in general, not this one in particular. –GM 05:47, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

While I stand by my decision, I have no issue if you choose to file a deletion review request. As a non-admin I am not in able to restore a deleted template. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 06:24, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've gone ahead and started a discussion. Here's the obligatory notification template:

== Deletion review for Template:My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic sidebar ==

An editor has asked for a deletion review of Template:My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic sidebar. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review.

 Vanilla  Wizard 💙 14:24, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08: since the deleting admin has undeleted the template, could you please self-revert your automated edits that removed all uses of the template from Wikipedia?  Vanilla  Wizard 💙 15:01, 14 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

User:Vanilla Wizard  Done Sorry for the delay... Busy off wiki today. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 05:18, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! And no worries about the delay, I can relate to being too busy off wiki.  Vanilla  Wizard 💙 05:58, 15 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Dear Editor, I have updated the page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Pradip_Baruah Kindly do the needful. Ishanjyotibora (talk) 11:44, 16 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I've seen the good work you've done on the template and I'd like to applaud you. I have been working on an article that I think would benefit from their bilibili in the infobox (bilibili is "China's YouTube" and at last count had about 300 million users). I have little experience in template coding and so just basically cannibalized the code in the template for YouTube and did find+replace to bilibili. It works, surprisingly, but I am pretty sure there is a bunch of dead code that never does anything but I'm not smart enough to figure out how to remove it. I have sufficient permissions to edit the main template but, given the fact that I barely know what I'm doing, that seems like a bad idea. I was wondering if you could look over what I have written (User:1brianm7/sandbox/Template) and check to see if I've horribly messed up somewhere. Cheers. 1brianm7 (talk) 05:46, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Responded here. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 06:21, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Can you inform me about West Papua government in West Papua? Great achievement (talk) 06:17, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

No idea what you are talking about or trying to say... Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 06:21, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Zackmann08. I am just letting you know that I declined the speedy deletion of Maheswar Soren, a page you tagged for speedy deletion, because of the following concern: Recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award is a credible claim of importance to negate A7. Thank you. Whpq (talk) 14:09, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Zackmann. I do appreciate anyone & anything cleaning up after me making some major or minor mess, but writing pages full of empty words about a couple of missing = signs next to some unused parameters? On my user page? You find that useful? I couldn't understand a word of it, by the way. So thanks for giving it a thought. Arminden (talk) 22:12, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Someone with your number of edits should be able to figure this out... First of all, clearly NOT a bot. Second, if you are so bothered by the warnings, stop causing the issue and learn to WP:PREVIEW your edits. You are not a new user and should know better. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:14, 18 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Zackmann08. Could you check File:Conduct An Introduction to Moral Philosophy.jpg? You uploaded this file back in 2023 as the book cover for Conduct: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy, but it appears to be nothing more than a reddish square. Is this really the official cover of the book in question? If it is, then I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be considered eligible for copyright protection under US copyright, but even in that case there's also pretty much no encyclopedic value provided to readers as primary identification of the book. Do you know whether the book was subsequently republished or whether there's more information on the inner jacket of the book? -- Marchjuly (talk) 00:39, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Marchjuly: I have no explanation... I have tagged it under WP:G7. Thanks for the message! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:04, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for checking. -- Marchjuly (talk) 04:31, 20 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Zackmann08: Hello and thanks for looking at my edits.

I have disclosed my conflict of interest up front. I followed the COI guidance carefully and limited my changes to correcting outdated, factual information (e.g., updated number of fellows, headquarters location, change of editor-in-chief, and factual notes on the organisation's expansion). I also avoided promotional language and did not add direct links to company-controlled sources.

Yet, my edits were reverted.

Could you please help me understand specifically what policy or guideline concern applies here (e.g., promotional tone, sourcing, undue weight), and point me to the exact phrases or sections that are problematic? If there are particular words that read as promotional, I am happy to rewrite them in a more neutral way.

Also, if the issue is sourcing, I would appreciate guidance on what kinds of independent reliable sources you would prefer for these factual updates, and I can provide them so an uninvolved editor can make the change.

My goal is simply to keep the article accurate and up to date while respecting WP:COI. Thanks in advance for any concrete feedback. KSezer CEPR (talk) 17:01, 21 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]