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Edits to KML files - preventing map from being opened
Hi @SID 'Gingerfool' RAT:
I have noticed your edits adding <noinclude>[[Category:Attached KML templates]]</noinclude>
to KML files. Unfortunately, this addition appears to be interfering with drop down display at the top right hand corner of the relevant articles.
For example, if you look at Oxted line (whose KML file you have not edited), you will see that there is a globe icon and a drop down arrow next to the GA symbol. Compare this with North Downs Line (whose KML file you have edited) and the globe and arrow disappear. Could you investigate and until we have a solution to this problem, could you please not make any more of these edits?
Thanks Mertbiol (talk) 15:14, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- Didn't realise this was affecting the articles, I was merely working through the Uncategorised Templates list. I'll stop with the edits until we have a solution :) SID 'Gingerfool' RAT ☎ 15:17, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, do you know who to approach for advice? This is isn't my area of expertise at all. Thanks Mertbiol (talk) 15:18, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- I don't know myself, I don't have any expertise with KML templates, I was just going through the list. SID 'Gingerfool' RAT ☎ 15:19, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- OK. I will try to ask at the Teahouse. I do know that KML templates can be very 'fussy' - and won't work unless everything is absolutely perfect. Mertbiol (talk) 15:23, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- Hi @SID 'Gingerfool' RAT:
- Per the discussion at Wikipedia:Teahouse#Problem_adding_categories_to_KML_template_pages, it seems that the addition of the
<noinclude>[[Category:Attached KML templates]]</noinclude>is the problem and the best solution is to move this to a /doc subpage for each template (e.g. Template:Attached KML/North Downs Line/doc). I suggest that you request a mass rollback of your edits - the Teahouse is probably the best place to do this. A mass revert is probably the quickest way to resolve the immediate problem and you can then create the /doc subpages at your leisure. - Thanks Mertbiol (talk) 18:21, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- All sorted now, every page has been reverted. SID 'Gingerfool' RAT ☎ 00:59, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks @SID 'Gingerfool' RAT: Mertbiol (talk) 18:19, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
- All sorted now, every page has been reverted. SID 'Gingerfool' RAT ☎ 00:59, 16 December 2025 (UTC)
- OK. I will try to ask at the Teahouse. I do know that KML templates can be very 'fussy' - and won't work unless everything is absolutely perfect. Mertbiol (talk) 15:23, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- I don't know myself, I don't have any expertise with KML templates, I was just going through the list. SID 'Gingerfool' RAT ☎ 15:19, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
- Thanks, do you know who to approach for advice? This is isn't my area of expertise at all. Thanks Mertbiol (talk) 15:18, 15 December 2025 (UTC)
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The first round of the 2026 WikiCup ended on 26 February. As some of you may have noticed, good article nomination reviews now receive 10 points, an increase from 5 points in the previous year, as per a consensus at WT:CUP. This point increase has been retroactively applied to all good article reviews for which competitors have claimed points in this round. Peer reviews, which continue to be worth 5 points, are now listed in the same section as featured article candidate reviews, rather than with good article reviews. Everyone who competed in round 1 will advance to round 2 unless they have withdrawn or been banned. No other changes to the round-point system have been made for this year.
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Speedy deletion nomination of Category:18th-century English parliaments

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Generalissima (submissions) with 1,318 points, mostly from 13 good articles and 3 featured articles about creeks and Chinese and Japanese subjects
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