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Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 21:54, 28 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Gerda. This year your message has coincided with a very late start to real spring weather, so I have at least two reasons to be smiling. -- Mirokado (talk) 21:06, 30 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Article length bar

Hi, Mirokado. I'm writing to tell you about new template {{Article length bar}} ({{Albar}} ). I found you because of your earlier use of the template {{Article length rating}} (alias {{Alr}}). I had an application which also needed a graphic for article length, but I found Alr opaque in its symbology, and also it tops out at 20kb, which I think of as start-class, or just past stub; that is way too early for my purpose. My use case is more about checking whether an article is getting close to being too big and approaching the threshold for splitting, or already exceeding it, while Alr appears to be better for measuring stubs. Anyway, don't know if you stopped using Alr because you no longer had a need for it, or you gave up on it because it didn't really work for you, either.

The new {{Albar}} is very configurable, you can use it in default mode to get {{Albar|Jean Sibelius}} → 124k, for example. Here's France , Germany , and Italy rendered as sparklines. Lots more configurability, and if you still have a need for a graphic length symbol, I'd love to see your applications for it. It's still new, and I'm still thinking of other enhancements (including a prose-words mode: long-term, and not simple) and if you have any wish-list items for it, please add them to the template talk page. Cheers, Mathglot (talk) 06:46, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Work or encyclopedia?

I notice that you change "work" into "encyclopedia" in Ancient Greek accent for an item called "Proceedings of the 23rd Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference". But I am tempted to undo this change since the work in question is surely not an encyclopedia but simply a collection of articles or lectures. What do you think? Kanjuzi (talk) 22:47, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the question. |work= is no longer valid for {{cite encyclopedia}} and it generates an error if you have them enabled. Looking further, I think the citation should have used {{cite conference}}, so I have updated it with a few other changes. Please check again. -- Mirokado (talk) 00:02, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

OK, thanks for the corrections. Kanjuzi (talk) 09:16, 16 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

false positive cs1

Hi, you can use Template:Sfn whitelist to overcome false-positive errors, having to use " " in a harv looks awful. I would be looking at whatever was making me have to use the ref=CITEREF in the first place. It's usually a sign that things have got overcomplicated. I will say the referencing section on The Horus Heresy is a mess. Dozens of "Harv warning: There is no link pointing to this citation" errors. These should be fixed either by using |ref=none or, better, moving those items out of the Reference & Bibliography sections soi they stop generating the errors. Cited works and uncited works mixed up together. As a reader it's very off-putting, as an editor trying to fix error messages it's a nightmare. Sorry to be so blunt, I can see you have put a huge amount of work into the article. DuncanHill (talk) 11:34, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Duncan, thank you for this comment. I fully agree! This particular false positive was somehow caused by the use of {{harvs}} rather than {{harvnb}} later in the same citation, so we did not need {{sfn whitelist}} this time, but I will remember it for the future. Now that all the "CS1 maint" messages are sorted out, I will have a look at the "no link" messages. For the bibliography I would like to have at least one link to a citation for each of the volumes in the series: any remaining can have |ref=none. Missing links to other listed citations probably need attention from editors familiar with the material, since adding content or linking from existing content may be preferable to moving to Further reading or deleting. It may be possible to create other subsections for review citations etc., and to rationalise which are listed with callouts and which embedded in the source (if any). -- Mirokado (talk) 16:19, 26 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]