User talk:Davemck

My dad applied for body donation to the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) a few years ago; he was rejected for obesity. So he applied to the [original UT] body farm here in Knoxville. Then he lost weight, and UAB said OK. Then he got sick, and UAB said no, but UT said maybe: long story short he was cremated (but not pulverized), and he's now literally under Neyland Stadium.^[1] Another true story.

Reference added.--Brogo13 (talk) 16:59, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Hi Davemck, I think you might have removed the wrong parameter from Template:Particles, since the duplicate parameter was removed in the previous edit.—Aranya (talk) 19:35, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

Thanks -- looks like we removed an extra state parm at about the same time. I have reverted my edit. Davemck (talk) 19:48, 28 August 2019 (UTC)

This edit ("rmv duplicate parm") removed the 4th "Forfeits / Vacated wins" white key above the table, where there are 3 vacated games which are noted via the same white background -with the dagger/double dagger char noting which specific team. Can you clarify how this parameter is a duplicate? Cheeers, UW Dawgs (talk) 01:40, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

There were two "legend_forfeit_text" parms: the one you added with "Forfeits / Vacated wins" and the one below the blank line, with "Vacated wins" followed by 2 long notes. When there are more than one of the same parm name in a template, the WIKI software uses the last one, ignoring the previous one(s). So after your edit, "Vacated wins" still displayed in the article. My edit didn't change what was displayed; it only eliminated the "more than one value" warning that appeared at the top in edit mode when you press "Show preview". Davemck (talk) 03:07, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

Thank you. It was right in front of me, I just missed it. UW Dawgs (talk) 18:10, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

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Thanks for fixing an error to my 2017-18 NCAA Div I Womens' Ice Hockey Ratings. You will note that I undid the correction only because the whole edit posted to the wrong season (2016-17). I have incorporated your fix and did my own fix of editing the correct page. I appreciate your help. Bill McKenna (talk) 21:26, 5 January 2020 (UTC)

Biblical description of the ostrich is in Job 39:13-18 and describes YEHOVAH as depriving the ostrich of wisdom and understanding which is why she takes no care to build a better nest for her young in a protected location vs in the open earth where feet can crush them and they are exposed to predators. KristaHill1 (talk) 23:15, 12 January 2020 (UTC)

Go here for more: Wikipedia:WikiGnome/Kudos  Mr.choppers | ✎  01:54, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Hi Dave, Many thanks for noticing and fixing the center code, I assumed <div class="center" >[[Category:Pages using center with no arguments]]</div> worked with everything but apparently not,
Thanks again, Happy editing, –Davey2010^Talk 02:01, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi, is possible to expand this Template:Infobox netball biography to cater for Ama Agbeze who has played for at 12/13 clubs. Still working on improving article maybe more clubs. Djln Djln (talk) 21:23, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

I would suggest asking that question on Template talk:Infobox netball biography. Davemck (talk) 23:08, 27 March 2020 (UTC)

...for your earlier editorial attention to the Robert R. Redfield article. Care to return and do a "once-over", on the overly long vaccine controversy subsection? It is disjointed, repetitve, and possibly (at least in its length), approaching non-neutral. As I said in an edit summary, citing whole books without page numbers is bad form, and too much is made out of Redfield's choosing to pursue a vaccine. (Many were pursuing vaccines in that period, and many still are; to have done so is not the controversy; rather, it is because he was accused of overstating the initial data, see text citations.) So, it needs a logging editor's attention. For comparison (length, balance), see the pay controversy subsection. Thank you. Cheers. 2601:246:C700:19D:90CB:77CE:20F1:3AF4 (talk) 02:54, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Hi, you took out a parameter area_total_km2 from the settlement IB St. Andrews, New Brunswick. It's true there was a dupe there. However following your edit the IB is showing an error so I put it back in temporarily. I'd be grateful if you could take a look. I guess if it won't work without a dupe parm, I'll just go back to hardcoding the value. --Cornellier (talk) 23:29, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi, you just removed CAS number of Methoxyketamine hydrochloride from Methoxyketamine article. You said it was a duplicated value but hydrochloride salt's data is not a duplicate of free amine data. Is there any rule about chembox, drugbox and acid salt display with drugs ? Angely (talk) 23:33, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Angely. First off, I don't know anything about chemistry or drugs. Before my edit, there were 2 lines with the "CASNo_Ref" parameter:

CASNo_Ref = {{cascite|correct|}}

and 3 lines below that:

CASNo_Ref = {{cascite|correct|CAS}}

which had been added in the preceding edit by user:Fswitzer4. In any template, there can be only one instance of a given parm name ("CASNo_Ref" in this case), and if there are 2, only the last one is used. So I removed the first one, deferring to Fswitzer4's judgment.

Notice that my edit didn't remove the CAS number−only the unused "CASNo_Ref" line. Davemck (talk) 00:24, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Ah ! You're right ! Its a mistake. I think I was very tired. Sorry about that. Angely (talk) 06:52, 25 June 2020 (UTC)

Dear Davemck. Thank you very much for your intervention on the article Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne. I had added a duplicate p parameter in an sfn by mistake. Luckily you came along and found it. The duplicate p should have been an ps parameter. However, this error was masking another. Inadvertently, I had used the same author-year-page combination already for another citation. Your correction using harvnb is interesting. I prefer fixing such duplicates by giving a line number in addition to the page in the p parameter, because sfn is more elegant than a harvnb surrounded by <ref> </ref>. I therefore dared to retouch your correction in that manner. I hope you do not mind, but perhaps I am wrong. Do you prefer <ref>{{harvnb}}</ref>? Thanks again for your correction. I am a novice, especially compared to your 36000 edits! Best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 06:32, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Johannes. That's fine with me. I used harvnb because I saw the suggestion in the sfn documentation, but your fix is more consistent. Davemck (talk) 15:39, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

Dear Davemck. Thanks a lot. Makes sense. Bye, Johannes Schade (talk) 19:53, 6 July 2020 (UTC)

@Davemck:

The information, which is given in the Muthuraja article is incorrect

The Muthuraja is not a fully Tamil caste and it has Telugu Muthuraja also included

Book Name: Barriers broken: production relations and agrarian change in Tamil Nadu Page:No :25

The Muthurajas are descendants of the soldiers which the poligars recruited in their homeland, the Telugu-speaking areas of contemporary Andhra Pradesh, north of Tamil Nadu Like other castes originating from Andhra, they are bilingual, often speaking Telugu in family circles and Tamil outside the house "^[1]

Book Name : Kattavarayan Katai Page:No :19

" Among the Telugu castes that came to Tamilnadu were the Muthurajas or Mutrāchas"^[2]

(Backward Classes Welfare Department G.O.Ms.No :15.) Mutharaiyar caste have 29 subcaste in tamilnadu such as Muthuraja Naidu(Telugu) & Muthuraju(Telugu)

Concerning the Mutrāchas,(present-day Muthuraja) Mr. H. A. Stuart writes as follows. This is a Telugu caste most numerous in the North Arcot districts^[3] ( North Arcot district was divided into Vellore District and Tiruvannamalai District)

South Arcot district MUTHRACHA(present-day Muthuraja) reported as Telugu caste name in 1881 census ^[4] ( South Arcot district: present-day districts of Cuddalore, Kallakurichi and Viluppuram)

The Telugu Speaking Muthuraja community is mostly distributed in the chennai , Thiruvallur , Vellore, Tiruvannamalai and Cuddalore districts of Tamil Nadu

you can see tamil wikipedia Muthuraja Article -The Muthuraja is not a fully Tamil caste and it has Telugu Muthuraja also included

@Davemck: Please add correct information brother

@Almighty34: -- You are free to make those changes yourself. Davemck (talk) 04:29, 10 July 2020 (UTC)

Dear Davemck, i just didn't know, how to formate it. Thank you! I'll keep this in my vademecum, so i hope, i don't make this mistake again. Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 21:34, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

My pleasure :-) Davemck (talk) 21:54, 4 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi there. I’m just wondering why did you remove my edit from Alistair Carmichael? He is currently the Deputy Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, I don’t understand why it was necessary to remove the office? Ciaran.london (talk) 00:24, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi, Ciaran. Because it resulted in duplicate parameter errors (which are visible at the top of the edit screen when you press "Show preview"). You added office3 (Deputy leader) and renumbered the old offices 3 & 4 to 4 & 5, which was good. But that made the new leader5 (Tim Farron, et al.) a duplicate of the old leader5 (Nick Clegg). To avoid the errors would require the old parameters numbered 5 thru 14 to be incremented to 6 thru 15. Davemck (talk) 01:32, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

Ohh I didn’t realise I made a mistake - I’m really sorry about that. Is there a way that we could add the Deputy Leader office back in? Ciaran.london (talk) 18:33, 16 August 2020 (UTC)

OK, I added it with this edit. Davemck (talk) 01:17, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Thank you. Ciaran.london (talk) 16:55, 23 August 2020 (UTC)

Hi there, can you explain that why did you remove the pronounciation from the New Tehri article. Binsarhills (talk) 16:33, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

Because it didn't give the pronunciation. See Uttarakhand. Since this is the English wikipedia, giving pronunciation in Hindi isn't helpful. Davemck (talk) 17:00, 15 October 2020 (UTC)

sorry- I had a major edit and had to check it in because I have to drive my daughter somewhere. I could not see what too merge from your edits very quickly so I stepped on your fixes to the article. I will try and merge them later, or if you remember what they were, you can redo them. Sorry. J JMesserly (talk) 01:02, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Thanks for your helpful contribution to the page, 37th AVN Awards, what do you think of the recent improvements to the article? Right cite (talk) 19:37, 15 November 2020 (UTC)

Dear Davemck. Thank you for your recent correction at 4:31 on 16 January 2021 on the article Donough MacCarty, 1st Earl of Clancarty. You very cleverly fixed a duplicate "p" parameter to a "ps" parameter in a citation in an Sfn. My wrong! I should have been more careful. I see you are an extremely experienced editor with > 46,000 edits (chapeau!). However, at the same occasion you corrected the URL in the "p" parameter from "[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n360/ 344]" to "[https://archive.org/details/agenealogicalhi00burkgoog/page/n344/ 344]" (how? why?). When the user clicks the link, the source now opens at page 326 instead of 344 as the "n" prefix on the page in the URL indicates that the number in the URL differs from the page number in the book as you certainly know. If you agree, please correct this URL back to what it was. With many thanks, Johannes Schade (talk) 11:36, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

Ah, I see--sorry. The printed page #s are different from the URL #s. The reason I changed it was that when it's "/n360/ 344" you get a ...named reference "FOOTNOTEBurke1866..." defined multiple times error in the Notes section at ref [22]. I'll leave it to you to sort out, since you know what you want. I only ask that you use "Show preview" and fix any errors that show at the top. (It was a duplicate "p" parm error that I was trying to fix initially.) Davemck (talk) 17:09, 16 January 2021 (UTC)

I noticed that in this edit you removed the page range referring to the passage cited, and kept the page range referring to the whole chapter. I don't know whether the script you were using makes the decision for you when it identifies a duplicate parameter or whether it gives you a choice, but it seems to me in a case like this we almost always want to keep the narrower page range. Removing the narrower range and keeping the broader one means the reader/editor is left with no indication of where in the source to find the relevant informaton. ({{Cite book}} should really allow multiple page ranges for citing chapters in edited volunes, but that's another matter.) Not a huge deal but just seemed worth pointing out. All the best, – Arms & Hearts (talk) 14:47, 27 February 2021 (UTC)

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Thank you for correcting List of filename extensions (0–9). Truthanado (talk) 11:06, 3 July 2021 (UTC)

A few recent examples

• was this the right page number to remove?
• was this best?

It's difficult and ambiguous, maybe in cases like this it would be best to create an inline comment for example the first one: <ref name = "fj"> {{Cite book | publisher = Pinguin books Ltd | isbn = 9780720715941 | last = Kashiwazaki| first = Katsuhiko | title = Fighting Judo | year = 1985 | pages = 143 }}<!-- Possibly pages=138-144 --></ref> otherwise the info is basically lost. -- GreenC 20:28, 19 December 2021 (UTC)

Wife Sarah Ann Lattimore was not from Saratoga Springs. She was born in Albany NY and subsequently lived with her Family in town of Moreau in Saratoga County. 2603:7080:103:6986:70D7:901B:6AA:40C (talk) 17:33, 16 February 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I hope you are well. Please review Mehran Ghafourian's draft. I made some changes. If the article is rejected again, write the reason. Thanks for your following up Amir ghpro (talk) 19:43, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for the recent edit and tips on Draft:Amhara genocide. I deleted all the categories to avoid issues. Is there any other issues that you notice in the category or other sections? I would appreciate it.Petra0922 (talk) 13:38, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

Hello, you recently deleted the publication date for a web citation for article:

• Atmospheric water generator

… under the premise that this was a duplicate attribute. Actually, there was no attribute duplication. There are two date attributes:

• date … this is the date that the cited webpage was published, this date can usually be found on the cited page (but not always).
• access-date … this is the most recent date that the webpage was verified by a Wikipedia editor. This can be helpful to know if, at a later date, the cited webpage is deleted or moved … at which time a dead-link tag can be added.

For further information, see:

• Template:Cite_web#Usage

This citation has now been restored and appears in references as:

• Irving, Michael (2022-05-24). "Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air". New Atlas. Retrieved 2022-06-04.

In this case, date appears as 2022-05-24 - which is the date that that page was published by Michael Irving. "Retrieved 2022-06-04" is the date that I opened the cited URL and verified that the article was still live at the cited URL. Other editors may verify this URL at a later date and then change "access-date" to that later date. Of course, if it emerges that the page is moved or deleted, then a dead-link tag is added. I trust this is helpful.
Enquire (talk) 00:54, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Enquire; here's the code after your revert:

 humidity.<ref>{{Cite web
  | last          = Irving
  | first         = Michael
  | date          = May 24, 2022
  | title         = Cheap gel film pulls buckets of drinking water per day from thin air
  | url           = https://newatlas.com/materials/drinking-water-harvester-air-gel-film/
  | date          = 2022-05-24
  | access-date   = 2022-06-04
  | website       = New Atlas
  | language      = en-US
 }}</ref>

See the problem? Davemck (talk) 01:30, 6 June 2022 (UTC)

I was trying to add Aquilarhinus 70.160.98.149 (talk) 00:00, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Is this what you wanted?

Davemck (talk) 00:30, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Yes 70.160.98.149 (talk) 18:46, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

OK, I added it. Davemck (talk) 19:32, 13 July 2022 (UTC)

Hello, I was in the middle of a large expansion of the article when I overwrote your duplicate arguments edit. If you have a moment, feel free to effect that edit again. Ifly6 (talk) 21:23, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, will do. Davemck (talk) 22:16, 16 July 2022 (UTC)

Well done! Thanks! I'll know for the next time. Drmies (talk) 16:27, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Thanks. Took a while to sniff it out, what with the massive amount of verbiage there :-) Davemck (talk) 16:34, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

Haha yes, no doubt. I'm reminded of the time that it took three or four of us to figure out what messed up a citation template--it was a single hard return in a long title. Thanks again, because I tried and failed! Drmies (talk) 16:47, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

My pleasure! Davemck (talk) 17:34, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

BTW, User:Frietjes/findargdups was quite helpful. Davemck (talk) 17:38, 17 September 2022 (UTC)

for cleanup. How that findargdups works. I mean how did you found that article to be cleaned up? 85.238.101.64 (talk) 12:42, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

You're welcome. Articles with duplicate parm errors are listed on Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls. I work off of that. Davemck (talk) 15:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi! I noticed that some of the figures were incorrect and tried to correct them. I didn't understand your edit summary about duplication. Could you explain this to me? Alternatively, I could provide you with the correct figures here, with the citations, and you can add them yourself. Thanks.--عبد المسيح (talk) 22:01, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Before your edit, these were already there (as well as other regions):

region1

region2

region3

region4

region5

region6

region7

region8

Then below them, you added:

region1

region2

region3

region4

region5

region6

region7

region8

which resulted in two of each region 1 to 8.

There can only be one of any parameter name (region1, pop1, ref1, etc.). If there are duplicates, an error shows at the top of the article when you press "Show preview" and only the last one displays in the article.

So you can change the figures, but be sure to press "Show preview" and fix any errors before you press "Publish changes". Thanks. Davemck (talk) 22:36, 21 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you.--عبد المسيح (talk) 04:00, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

Hello, i have been working on the draft Davide Lo Surdo and i saw your edit some minutes ago. Can you give me your opinion on it and tell me if some changes are needed? Thank you 91.80.1.177 (talk) 22:17, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

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I noticed you fixed something I messed up on my draft. Thanks. And I forgot to change the title from her name to the "Disappearance of".

Did you have any opinion as to whether the girl's disappearance is notable? I'm about a month behind on national coverage but I did what I had time for.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 17:40, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

@Vchimpanzee: No, I don't pay much attention to those issues; just do heads-down parm fixing. The people who evaluate drafts might say to wait til there's some resolution in the case, but it wouldn't hurt to submit a draft to find out.

btw, your "Serious business" lolcat is one of my favorite pics on WP. He also appears on User:Plastikspork's page. Davemck (talk) 18:07, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

I'll wait and see what happens.

I don't know where I got the "Serious business" photo but maybe I saw it on the page you mentioned.— Vchimpanzee • talk • contributions • 20:50, 26 January 2023 (UTC)

Identifying duplication of arguments seems helpful, but randomly picking one of two different arguments does not. What are u thinking about this example? --Doncram (talk,contribs) 19:25, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

@Doncram: Not random; I was regarding this as a publication date analogous to a book's publication date, in contrast to the date the author wrote the manuscript (date of prep). In fact, I thought of changing August 24 to August 17, when the official signed the certification, but left it as 24 on the theory of changing as little as possible. Of course, I'm happy with your changing it, being careful not to include 2 date= parms. Davemck (talk) 20:24, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Okay, I appreciate your reply. The practice chosen by WikiProject NRHP, addressing 95,000 plus NRHP-listed places for which 70,000 or so articles have been written, is that we should credit authors and give corresponding dates of preparation, given in Section 9 of the official forms. Stamping at various higher levels is not consistently available. The articles do report (mainly in their infoboxes) the date of NRHP listing, i.e. approval probably always involving a dated signature, by US Secretary of the Interior or by the Registrar or whatever is their title of the NRHP program. Which is what u were kinda driving at as a date of publication. Anyhow i will change this to the date of preparation/authorship consistent with our practice. Thank you for noticing the duplication of fields. --Doncram (talk,contribs) 20:48, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Sounds good. Davemck (talk) 20:51, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

I saw that you edited the draft I created, Draft:Smash Into Pieces, for the Swedish band. I originally intended to just begin to work on the page and continue tomorrow, but eventually I added what to the page what I think might be enough for a main article. Do you think it is ready to be a main article? DSOFOreverTYU ~ talk ~ Eurovision 19:20, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

Davemck, why aren't you answering me? I saw that you almost always answer users on your talk page after less than 1 hour. Please respond. DSOFOreverTYU ~ talk ~ Eurovision 12:09, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

@DSOFOreverTYU: I'm not really the person to ask -- I don't pay much attention to popular music and bands; I just fix errors. I would suggest submitting the draft and see what happens. If it's accepted, great; if not, the people who evaluate it will probably make suggestions about what needs to be improved before submitting again. Davemck (talk) 15:48, 27 February 2023 (UTC)

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Hi, Davemck, i worked on the article today and recognized that some of the formatting might be wrong - it isn't easy with all the books and articles.. i wrote a note to myself to control this... but you were faster. Thanks for your help! Naomi Hennig (talk) 17:00, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

@Naomi Hennig: My pleasure. And thanks also to User:Frietjes who wrote the script findargdups that makes it easy to find duplicate template arguments. Davemck (talk) 17:35, 13 March 2023 (UTC)

What to write to The 2016 publication in the Journal of Geology in contrast finds that the integumentary structures found on Kulindadromeus and Psittacosaurus are highly deformed scales and not feather-like structures ? Dinomarek (talk) 14:58, 17 March 2023 (UTC)

Check why infobox isnt good please https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_in_Pakistan 78.0.187.227 (talk) 20:35, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

I don't see anything wrong with it; it doesn't give an error in edit mode. Davemck (talk) 21:28, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

Hey Dave, thank you so much for uploading the album cover for Asking for a Ride for me! 😊

I’ll now submit the draft for review. KevinML (talk) 11:21, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

@KevinML: My pleasure. Actually, the image was already uploaded & its name was already in the draft in the cover= parm. But there was a 2nd (empty) cover= below it. I just deleted the empty one. When there are 2 parms with the same name, the WP software uses only the last one, which in this case was empty, so it ignored the file name above it :-) Davemck (talk) 15:23, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Ok. But I still just want to thank you for correcting that error. This is basically the first time I’ve submitted a draft on Wikipedia, so I’m obviously not as experienced as you. KevinML (talk) 15:56, 24 May 2023 (UTC)

Please do not edit my sandbox unless I ask you to do so. It's considered bad manners on WP, and I find it a violation of my personal space. Thank you. Jenhawk777 (talk) 04:11, 9 June 2023 (UTC)

For your looking in at Carol Dweck. Always helpful to have someone look in after major editing. In re: converting the block quote to prose—if you or another editor wants to do a careful deletion there, of the objectionable material, that is fine by me. I simple want the issues to be clear to readers (and leave to a logging editor the role of deleting it, should it be desirable). Cheers. 2601:246:C200:4619:926:F7C2:6D6B:7EC3 (talk) 00:35, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

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On the article for Camdenton, Missouri, I copied the coding for the infobox from the other article. I forgot to remove a part. Cwater1 (talk) 19:06, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

No problem; happens all the time :-) Davemck (talk) 19:08, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

In case you're wondering what GNIS ID 2394638 belongs to, it's for Eldon, Missouri while Camdenton has 2393511 as the number. I learned something new today. I'm going to learn more about Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). Have a great day and happy editing. Cwater1 (talk) 19:13, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Thanks, & me too! Davemck (talk) 19:15, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

Hi

I'm not sure if this is the correct way to point out a basic error with this page......but I'll state the case here, for comment.

The basic premise of this page is that the Roaring Forties are a wind, when, in fact, the name refers to an area, between 40 to 50 degrees South, where strong winds prevail, and are fairly constant throughout the year. It's a name for the Area and not the Winds. I wonder if you are able to "fix" this obvious error?

Reference....https://www.britannica.com/science/roaring-forties#:~:text=roaring%20forties%2C%2C%20areas%20between%20latitudes,who%20first%20entered%20these%20latitudes.

regards Neil 84.70.79.84 (talk) 10:07, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

I would suggest that you would get a better response if you post this to the talk page of the Roaring Forties article. My only involvement with the article was to correct an error in the refs once. Davemck (talk) 14:55, 3 August 2023 (UTC)

Hi, I saw that you made an edit on the Pee-wee Herman page which removed the live link "The Pee-Wee Herman scandal" and restored the archived link "Pee-wee and Sympathy." The two articles are actually one and the same, with the only difference being the title and a co-writer on the byline on the updated version (also the August 14, 1994 date is erroneous, the correct date is August 16, 1991 as stated in the live link). Spectrallights (talk) 21:21, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Ah, I see. The live link also has the article on a single page, whereas the old archive is multiple pages. I changed it to use the live link and corresponding archive. Davemck (talk) 22:14, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

Great, thanks. Spectrallights (talk) 22:26, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

What's the point of these corrections on unblock reviewed? They don't actually change anything in what's visible to the user, and they make it one tick harder to monitor (for example) replies to unblock reviews. --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 21:02, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

My reason for removing indicated errors is so that subsequent editors don't see an error and spend time trying to figure out what they did wrong. Davemck (talk) 21:31, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

Since the extra parameter is harmless, can you please not follow my invocations of "unblock reviewed"? --jpgordon^{𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇} 14:09, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

OK. Davemck (talk) 15:34, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

An article that been involved with ( The Usos) has content that is proposed to be removed and moved to another article (Jey Uso). If you are interested, please visit the discussion. Thank you. Summerslam2022 (talk) 22:50, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Are you a Wikipedia administrator, can you publish an article for me? 102.90.47.205 (talk) 01:36, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

No, I'm not an administrator, and I don't create articles for other people — but you can publish an article yourself. There's a tutorial at Help:Your first article. Good luck! Davemck (talk) 01:58, 12 September 2023 (UTC)

Thank you for correcting my mistake the result it was not what i wanted to do i got distracted thanks for fixing it i just wanted to make the info box like the one in Grant Shapps page . If you can could you do it otherwise i will try to do it some other time Friendlyhistorian (talk) 05:56, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

You're welcome. That's a fairly significant change. I would suggest you get consensus on Talk:Malcolm Rifkind beforehand. Good luck Davemck (talk) 14:11, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Ok thanks Friendlyhistorian (talk) 22:23, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Btw would you mind if i ask a question about something ? Friendlyhistorian (talk) 07:09, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

What's that? Davemck (talk) 15:50, 16 September 2023 (UTC)

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Hi Davemck - I lack the findargdups skills to respond to your "duplicate template arguments" corrections request. Alternatively, what are the duplicates? I will remove those manually:

curprev 04:12, 18 December 2023‎ Davemck talk contribs‎ m 9,737 bytes −17‎ Clean up duplicate template arguments using findargdups undothank Andipost (talk) 15:48, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Andipost; It wasn't a request; I made the correction myself. The problem was that there were two date= parms: 2019-05-11 and 2023-12-17. Since the 2nd one was yesterday's date, I removed the access-date=2013-10-17 that was there and changed the 2nd date= to access-date=. Davemck (talk) 16:09, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Hi Davemck: thank you for making the corrections. What is needed to get the profile go live? I am new at this, thank you for your renewed help. Andipost (talk) 11:15, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

I haven't made a draft myself, but here are some pages that can help:

Help:Your_first_article#Create_your_draft

Wikipedia:Drafts#Moving_drafts_to_mainspace

Evidently, if you're an WP:AUTOCONFIRMED editor, you can do it yourself with a WP:PAGEMOVE operation. (The WP:AUTOCONFIRMED page tells you whether your account is autoconfirmed.) If not autoconfirmed, you can submit it for review. Hope this helps. Davemck (talk) 16:24, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

This is an article you edited so maybe you know. But it’s all RS supported. Alexander Tikhonov 2603:7000:2101:AA00:C44B:64EE:C0AC:D56F (talk) 08:29, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

No, I don't know. You should ask User:Ymblanter, who made the deletions. Davemck (talk) 15:18, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

trying to find a good tutorial on this issue - any suggestions? I assume this is related to <ref> right? And in case of more then one they need to be numbered? Thanks. Lemonidess (talk) 11:42, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

I don't know of a tutorial specifically about duplicate arguments. The rule is that in any template call—code within "{{" & "}}"—each parameter (argument) name can appear only once. More than one & you get the duplicate error. When there are more than one, the software ignores all but the last—it mentions that in the error message.

So, for example, in

{{cite web |author=Joe Smith |author=Bob Jones}}

there are two "|author=" parms; You'll get an error and only Bob Jones will appear in the citation. The fix is to put sequence numbers on them:

{{cite web |author1=Joe Smith |author2=Bob Jones}}

Parms that can take sequence numbers are indicated in the docs for the template; only some can. For example, a web page or book can have multiple authors, so there's "author1=", "author2=", etc. But there can be only one "title=", so if there are two coded, you have to figure out what the other one really is: "chapter=", "series=" or something.

In edit mode for an article, there's a list of all the templates used in the article at the bottom. I usually open the template doc in another browser tab (by right-clicking) if I'm unsure of what parms are defined for a template.

Any template can have duplicate parm errors, but by far the most common are Infoboxes at the top of the article, like {{Infobox officeholder}}, and references (within <ref> & </ref>).

Hope this helps. If you have questions, just ask. Davemck (talk) 17:36, 6 March 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for catching this. I don't know why my spider sense didn't go off completely. It was like that since 2018! This is the diff you may be interested in. Yours, Zenon.Lach (talk) 17:00, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome. Yeah, amazing. I used the WikiBlame tool to find that edit. Davemck (talk) 17:10, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

Tabii, işte kullanıcıya sayfanın ismini "Bingöl"den "Suveydiler"e taşıma talebini içeren bir mesaj:

Hello,

I would like to request the renaming of the "Bingöl" page to "Suveydis." This change is proposed to better reflect the historical and cultural significance of the Suveydi tribe, who played a crucial role in the Bingöl region. Consolidating this information under the "Suveydis" title will provide a more accurate and comprehensive understanding of the area's history.

Thank you for your consideration.

Best regards, Kayas0706 (talk) 23:33, 1 June 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for removing the dupe |network params I had accidentally introduced into those mobile phone infoboxes. I've recently come across several others built in the same slightly erroneous manner where there wasn't already a proper |network included, so I neglected to check for it already being there in these two cases. When fixing lint errors, I tend to focus on the lintHint indicator and mentally filter out most of the preview warnings, since most of the time they tend to be about cites and I don't always feel like investigating those. "Show changes" plus a visual comparison usually catch any mistakes I may have made, but I guess I should look at the warnings a bit more carefully as well. Gamapamani (talk) 06:43, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome. Since I specialize in fixing duplicate parm errors, I sometimes wonder whether anybody looks at the warning messages :-) In their defense, I don't think the mobile interface shows the messages (I don't use it). Oh, well, it keeps me off the streets. Davemck (talk) 15:04, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

In my case it's definitely the ubiquitous cite warnings that have desensitized me to warnings in general. When you come in to work on something specific, you don't necessarily want to start fixing everything unrelated to that, and cites can be quite time-consuming to fix properly. And of course they (and some other warnings) have these colorful messages, so when you mentally filter those, it's really easy to miss less conspicuous warnings like the the dupe parameter one that just bolds the page title and sort of blends in with the same title also being bolded in the lead para right under it.

I also think that grouping content warnings in the same box with the always-there preview warning that people are guaranteed to tune out atfer a while lessens their impact in general. Frankly, I think the preview warning as such should be eliminated altogether - at least for logged in users, who aren't likely to be unaware that they're previewing, especially with the title already being "Editing X" and there being a "Preview" heading as well. Then other warnings would become more unusual and attention-grabbing (although the cite warnings would probably still desensitize people sooner or later). I just looked at the preferences and strangely there doesn't even seem to be a pref for turning the standard preview warning off.

But excuses aside, I'll try to pay more attention in the future, because it's really not cool to introduce errors when supposedly being there to fix them. Gamapamani (talk) 04:19, 9 June 2024 (UTC)

Just wanted to leave a proper message saying thanks for all your error help over the years. I edit only on my phone (like a crazy person) so I don't see a lot of error messages (of which I create many!) unless I'm in desktop mode and even then they're hazy. You're very kind to volunteer your time helping out and I just wanted to say "in person" thanks for your help and your years of patience. jengod (talk) 23:35, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

You're very welcome! I don't have the courage to edit by phone--tried it once and ran away screaming. Thank _you_ for your voluminous work. Davemck (talk) 23:39, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

some parameters like A03/boxstyle_A03 & A04/boxstyle_A04 -- Is A03 "Idris I of Morocco" or "Ja'far ibn Abdallah al-Mansur" might be repeating but this is not affecting the template. Anyway I will recheck and try to delete them161.253.74.225 (talk) 22:35, 26 September 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for catching my infobox goof on my first article!!! -αβοοδ (talk) 00:47, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

You're welcome! and congratulations on your first article; nicely done! Davemck (talk) 01:02, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Please do not edit this article while I am still translating and adding references. Your edits while I am still working has caused me to lose edits, links, and other references while I am still working on the article--which will be in progress for the next few days. Ariadne000 (talk) 22:04, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

Then add the {{In use}} template. Davemck (talk) 22:45, 15 October 2024 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	I just saw yet another one of your edits fixing duplicate template parameters that I'd accidentally left in while adding a citation. Thank you for your work! Sgubaldo (talk) 16:53, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

Thanks, and my pleasure. Davemck (talk) 16:54, 2 November 2024 (UTC)

I never meant to change the Frederick CO info box just completely screwed up there, so sorry.

Only wanted to put it into my sandbox to play around with it and mistakenly did it on the templates page. Chlori1de (talk) 13:41, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

No problem -- happens all the time. All's well that ends well :-) Davemck (talk) 14:50, 19 November 2024 (UTC)

Dear @Davemck, I noticed you’ve contributed to the Pawan Reley article. It’s currently under a deletion discussion, and your input would be highly valuable. Please consider sharing your thoughts on the discussion page. Thankyou! 𝒮-𝒜𝓊𝓇𝒶 03:31, 30 December 2024 (UTC)

for your looking in at D.J. DePree. Look to see if my re-edit of the offending format field label and content, and the edit summary that acompanies, make sense. It is an odd situation, and we were trying to work with the allowed fields and their restrictions as best we could. Otherwise, finishing up for the evening, so if you are a copy editor as well, feel free and have another look. (I am sure with our rapid pace, we leave behind some stray errors.) 98.226.86.66 (talk) 03:48, 3 January 2025 (UTC)

Just saw your recent edit after mine, using a clean-up tool. I've done everything manually (or with an offsite word processor) for all the time editing WP (over a decade). You have influenced me enough that I should look into some tools like the one you used, as I often do cleanup just to kill time and improve the overall quality of WP. If you have some suggestions what to start trying to use, or examples of what I should be looking for, I'll see what I can start doing in addition to my usual methods. --SidP (talk) 20:20, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

Yes, findargdups is immensely useful. I also use JavaScript Wiki Browser, a clone of AutoWikiBrowser, which I can't use because it only runs on Windows, and I'm on Linux. They're useful for making similar edits on multiple pages. Davemck (talk) 20:48, 14 January 2025 (UTC)

AWB runs under WINE, albeit not perfectly. Another option is virtualbox and the like. Polygnotus (talk) 17:50, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Good day, I am the brother of Adrian Nel, and I was at the amarula hotel during the battle of palma. I would really like to see a article about Adrian himself and what he did to save us during our escape. He is truly a hero and should be remembered as such. I would be happy to tell you more about it. Irlegend2021 (talk) 08:45, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

...for looking in at the Robert Robinson article today. It helps when a non-loggin editor like myself makes extensive edits, to have registered editors looking in. Appreciate your presence. Cheers. 98.226.86.66 (talk) 01:13, 3 March 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit on this article, I missed the duplicate template argument during editing! GalaxyFighter55 (talk) 06:46, 8 March 2025 (UTC)

for the constructive look-in at Richard D. Wolff. Appreciate when, as a non-logging editor, our work is not immediately suspect. We are, by the way, former academics and former logging editors that now engage students to teach the ins and outs of complying with WP:VERIFY, cleaning up poorly sourced articles, copy editing, etc. Cheers. 76.136.112.80 (talk) 23:51, 8 April 2025 (UTC)

Cheers! Davemck (talk) 00:18, 9 April 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for cleaning up duplicate args, but I am a bit confused by this because it appears to be deleting |url-status=live which occurs only a single time in that template? Polygnotus (talk) 17:49, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Yeah, it is confusing. The url is live, so what's wrong with saying url-status=live? It's a CS1 error: the explanation is here.

The error says you can't have url-status unless you also have archive-url. The purpose of url-status is to tell the software whether to use the url= or archive-url= as a link for the title.

I've often thought the error shouldn't be indicated in this case, since having url-status=live doesn't hurt anything. Maybe someday :-) Davemck (talk) 18:04, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Ah thank you that makes sense. Some day all software will be perfect! Polygnotus (talk) 18:06, 3 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for removing the duplicate URL in Normal distribution.

The edit preview page is still showing some "Script warning" messages about "cite book" templates.

Can you figure out what the problem is?

-- 50.39.99.89 (talk) 18:09, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

You're welcome. The "red" errors are "ISBN / Date incompatibility" errors which say the "cite book" has an ISBN but the published date is before 1965, which is when ISBNs were first assigned. For example, the source citation for de Moivre's The Doctrine of Chances has a published date of 1738; incompatible with having an ISBN. I updated the cite with:

|date=2000 |orig-date=First published 1738 |ref={{SfnRef|de Moivre|1738}}

(I got the 2000 from Google Books.) The SfnRef is so that you could use "{{Harvtxt|de Moivre|1738}}" in the article body instead of "{{Harvtxt|de Moivre|2000}}".

This error seems to have been added just a few months ago; I don't remember seeing it before then.

The "green" error was for putting 2 authors in a single "first1=" parm. I changed it to "author1=" & "author2=". Davemck (talk) 20:12, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for your fixes and for your explanations. --50.39.99.89 (talk) 20:32, 24 May 2025 (UTC)

I am reverting your addition of repetitive links in MEMS gravimeters. We only link once, please check WP:MOS and related pages. Ldm1954 (talk) 11:48, 9 June 2025 (UTC) Oops, wrong editor, sorry Ldm1954 (talk) 12:00, 9 June 2025 (UTC)

Hello, I added a lesser-used common name in the article for Messier 100, with a proper source attached, and you reverted it. I see you wrote 'duplicate name parameter' when describing the edit. What do you mean by that? Minnastronomer (talk) 03:39, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

Here's your edit:

| names = {{odlist | NGC= 4321 | UGC= 7450 | CGCG= 099-030 | MCG= +03-32-015 | IRAS= 12204+1605 | name= HOLM 387A | PGC= 40153| name= Blowdryer Galaxy<ref>https://www.astronomyedinburgh.org/2021/01/17/m100/</ref>}}

There are 2 name= parms: "HOLM 387A" & "Blowdryer Galaxy". That causes a duplicate parm error, which you can see in edit mode by pressing "Show preview". In general, any template call, such as {{odlist }}, can have only one of any parm, such as name=. As explained by the error message, when there are more than one, only the last one is used. So in your edit, "HOLM 387A" disappeared.

The documentation for Template:Odlist allows multiple numbered "name" parms (name2, name3, etc.) It says they should be traditional proper names per "astronomical naming conventions" Davemck (talk) 14:34, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

Looking again at Template:Odlist, I guess the "Traditional proper name..." comment refers only to the name= parm, not the numbered names. Davemck (talk) 16:07, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for the explanation, that makes total sense. Minnastronomer (talk) 20:22, 6 July 2025 (UTC)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selangor_F.C._Under-23&diff=prev&oldid=1299107662

Please revert, user with limited skills messed some of my big efforts without explanation. I'm trying to notify experienced native speakers, thanks 93.143.88.44 (talk) 15:15, 18 July 2025 (UTC)

Hi Davemck, a short addition to this edit with my unfriendly comment: I just saw that I had previously added a template error in my attempt to reduce the information loss caused by the formal changes by a third user - so although your other parameter changes were wrong: thank you for fixing that error. DerMaxdorfer (talk) 13:27, 25 July 2025 (UTC)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selangor_F.C._Under-23&oldid=1302484320

Your and correct version was vandalised, i keep reporting this user, please revert 93.140.39.137 (talk) 13:45, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Greetings. I see your edit "Acting CEO" for Mr Steiner however the company's webpage indicates he is now "CEO" and I have made that change. https://www.acronis.com/en-us/company/leadership/ Absent.Editor (talk) 22:35, 20 August 2025 (UTC)

Hey Dave.

Thanks for the fix on the Charles Thau page!

You are awesome ! Milwaukee911 (talk) 10:11, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. My pleasure. Davemck (talk) 13:29, 4 September 2025 (UTC)

Hello, @Davemck! A message on your most recent edit at 13:59, 7 October 2025 (view edit.) It would be helpful to also do this on Template:Colorado Springs, Colorado (template page). In addition please provide information on how to input wikidata for both templates.

Tokeamour (talk) 20:52, 7 October 2025 (UTC)

for looking in at Alsace-Lorraine today, and great catch on the nonsense title duplication. 76.136.83.142 (talk) 03:46, 11 October 2025 (UTC)

Why did you write that Ngwa is not Igbo? Are you Ngwa ~2025-37890-61 (talk) 19:15, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

That wasn't me. Davemck (talk) 19:20, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

My Bad ~2025-37890-61 (talk) 19:43, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Can you do me a favour? I see you've been fixing duplicate parameters. Would you be so kind to give User:Polygnotus/Scripts/DuplicateParameters3.js a try? I am interested in any feedback.

You can change the parameters by editing the textboxes. Removing a duplicate parameter can be done by unchecking the checkbox.

It adds a "Check Duplicate Parameters" link in the Tools menu when editing a page. Polygnotus (talk) 17:01, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

That's an impressive script!

I've tried it on a couple articles and have these reports:

1. On Ardatov, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, it didn't find the duplicate "location=". (The location value is "Москва" in Russian, but I wouldn't think that should affect anything.)

2. On John David Baker, it found the duplicates with identical values and deleted one successfully. The edit summary showed Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, instead of the new Category:Articles using duplicate arguments in template calls that they split off a few months ago.

I'll continue to try it out as time goes by. Davemck (talk) 18:06, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks, both should be fixed. Polygnotus (talk) 19:11, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Yes, both are now ok. Davemck (talk) 19:16, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

What do you think of the interface? How difficult/easy to understand is it? Does it speed up your workflow? Polygnotus (talk) 19:17, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

I removed the number 3 in the filename, please edit your common.js. Thanks, Polygnotus (talk) 19:22, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Thanks. Strangely, the script itself is now in Category:Articles using duplicate arguments in template calls. Is that because the "[[Category:..." line in the source doesn't have the ":" before "Category"? That would be surprising, but I don't fully understand how that ":" works :-)

The interface is pretty smooth and self-explanatory. I'm sure it will speed up workflow, once I climb the learning curve. Davemck (talk) 19:52, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Lol! Yeah that is because MediaWiki doesn't actually comprehend that that page is a JavaScript file so it gets treated as a normal page. Fixed

I think I want to improve the textbox near the bottom of the window, perhaps by highlighting the duplicate parameters. Polygnotus (talk) 19:56, 9 December 2025 (UTC)

Hi, you got rid of the actual release date, 1983, that was in the infobox, why is that? Jibblesnark86 (talk) 23:40, 31 January 2026 (UTC)

There were two released= parameters: one that had just 1983 & one a few lines below it that had a bunch of release dates by platform. When there are two parameters of the same name, WP ignores the first and uses the second (as well as giving an error when you press "Show preview" in edit mode). So I removed the first released=, which was being ignored anyway, to eliminate the error. Davemck (talk) 00:59, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

Oh, that makes sense. I'm sorry to ask this out of the blue, but I was just wondering about it. Thank you very much. Jibblesnark86 (talk) 01:00, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

No problem. Davemck (talk) 01:02, 1 February 2026 (UTC)

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Thanks for catching the dup args on Monarch Skyline Hotel. You beat me by about 30 seconds... Literally edit-conflicted fixing the same error. Appreciate you! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:44, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

My pleasure. I think of the process as an assembly line: you add a front wheel & I check the alignment. Davemck (talk) 02:48, 22 March 2026 (UTC)

HAHA!!! That is a great analogy. Love it. Still, I'd be a massive hypocrite if I didn't at least try to clean up my own messes. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:55, 22 March 2026 (UTC)