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editOh my gosh you have no idea how much I appreciate your response. That cleared a lot of things up. Y'all are great, Belbury, too. It is hard for me to approach things online, I have been traumatized regarding the online space, many times. Thank you for being clarifying. More people should take the time to explain things, how you do. peeeeeee-yew! (talk) 13:24, 22 December 2024 (UTC)
Another question
editHey, mate. Happy New Year. I have another question - if you could respond whenever you have the time that would be great. This is about External links.
- Page #1: Samuel Kolega#External_links
- Page #2: Istok Rodeš#External_links
- Question #1: On Kolega's page how come two external links appear, but when you go to 'edit source' all it says there is 'sports links' in parenthesis? Is that automatically generated by the system? And if so, how can it be edited? Probably through Wikidata? Can you please advise how that is done?
- Question #2: On Rodeš's page the first link says 'at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation', but on Kolega's page the link to the same website says 'at FIS (alpine)'? How can one edit the first one, so that it also says 'at FIS (alpine)' [as that one seems to be the standard on most skier's pages]?
Thanks! NoWikiNoLife (talk) 04:30, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Hello, @NoWikiNoLife, and Happy New Year.
- Whenever you see double curly brackets (
{{...}}) that's a template, and you can usually find more about it by looking for it in template space. - So Template:sports links explains what is generating the specific links that you see. However, in this case there is a further complication that that template gets its data from Wikidata. So if you go to Samuel Kolega, and pick "Wikidata item" from the Tools menu, it takes you to d:Q49171090, which is the Wikidata item for Kolega. In the section "Identifiers", you can see that two listed are his "FIS alpine skier ID" and his "Olympedia ID" - I presume that that is where the links come from. Each of those has an "Edit" pencil, if they need changing.
- On Istok Rodeš, the links are not generated by {{sports links}}, but are placed individually, using simpler templates. Template:FIS alpine skier displays specific text, whereas {{sports links}} presumably generates the text from the ID name (I'm guessing). I also notice that {{FIS alpine skier}} can be given an ID - as it is here - or if one is not given, will pick it up from Wikidata; ColinFine (talk) 14:04, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- As for whether there is a standard presentation: I have no idea. Since {{sports links}} is general, it's probably easier to standardise if that is used wherever possible. But if you're concerned, I suggest you look at WP:WikiProject Olympics or WP:WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding. They may have their own Manual of Style, or you can ask at the talk page of one of them. ColinFine (talk) 14:07, 1 January 2025 (UTC)
- Wow. So complicated... when it really shouldn't be. But one gets used to that on Wikipedia... Thanks for having taken the time for the detailed explanation, much appreciated! NoWikiNoLife (talk) 00:12, 2 January 2025 (UTC)
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Advising a user who is looking for an editor for pay
editHi ColinFine, hope you don't mind me contacting you. I've come across an editor, The purpose driven wife, who wants to find paid help with what looks like an article about a family member. I've warned against this, but the editor is not convinced. Would you be able to reiterate that this is unwise to them? I have already requested that Oversight have a look at the changes they've made directly to R. C. Sproul Jr. Thanks - I didn't want to post this at the Teahouse as I thought they might then get contacted directly by scammers, and I saw that you had recently warned another user there. Best wishes, Tacyarg (talk) 12:44, 10 January 2025 (UTC)
Because IP user making section "This is racism" one is editor War on Wikipedia namespace. 2001:44C8:455C:91:C1B3:EC6C:4318:1D05 (talk) 04:22, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- I have no idea what you are talking about, or why you are posting on my User talk page. ColinFine (talk) 15:20, 18 January 2025 (UTC)
- About edit warring in Teahouse 2001:44C8:455C:91:C1B3:EC6C:4318:1D05 (talk) 00:34, 19 January 2025 (UTC)