User talk:Matrix

Uffington lincs

My view point is neutral, and gives great credit to a humbled man. im not accustomed to being called or my changes as criminal damage by Nedrutland this is not proven and is slander. this low life rants and behaviour is not acceptable so please block him. Cozaswhite (talk) 13:46, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

@Cozaswhite: I'm not an admin here, I can't block anyone. Your edit was clearly biased positively: Lord Dean Coutts, resides in the village and takes a positive active influence in all the villages activities. (see bold). Please read the guideline about "peacock" words. Furthermore, your edits must be backed by reliable sources per WP:RS (which they weren't). Also note the person must be notable per WP:NBIO to be included in the article. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 13:54, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

Hello Matrix.

a neutral point of view, is an opinion. It’s a contradiction in terms. For eg if I change the Asian god wiki, there is no proof of gods or story telling. If I dismissed this, all hell would break loose, and as to hell, well my point is clearly stated. Cozaswhite (talk) 13:51, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

I'm a bit confused by this. Please speak in coherent English. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 13:56, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

(Personal attack removed) Cozaswhite (talk) 14:03, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

GPL-3

This template has been moved without redirect. I would be great if you could fix the transclusions. Thanks! Plastikspork _―Œ^(talk) 16:13, 20 July 2024 (UTC)

 Done —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 04:48, 21 July 2024 (UTC)

Admin help rq

Hey, could someone please change content model of Talk:Main Page/HelpBox/styles.css to sanitized-css so I can use it with mw:Help:TemplateStyles? Thanks, —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 07:40, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

In addition, kindly also semi-protect. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 08:30, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

I have changed the content model, but the border value var(--border-width-base, 1px) var(--border-style-base, solid) var(--border-color-content-removed, #ffe49c) is not allowed in sanitized CSS, nor are any of the following:

border-width: var(--border-width-base, 1px);
border-style: var(--border-style-base, solid);
border-color: var(--border-color-content-removed, #ffe49c);

An admin will still be needed to semi-protect it. SilverLocust 💬 09:58, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks! —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 10:06, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

Aren't .css interface protected in user space. Luhanopi (talk) 21:55, 19 August 2024 (UTC)

@Luhanopi: I'm a bit confused by your question, this css file is in talk space. Also interface protection is only applicable on MediaWiki:Common.css. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 03:11, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

Only interface admins can edit other users' CSS or JS pages (like User:SilverLocust/common.css), but that doesn't apply to Sanitized CSS (TemplateStyles) pages (like User:SilverLocust/sandbox.css). SilverLocust 💬 06:21, 20 August 2024 (UTC)

NowCommons

Hello! If you like to clean out files then perhaps the list in User:MGA73/sandbox would interesst you. It should be files that are also on Commons but not tagged with a NowCommons. MGA73 (talk) 13:15, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for the list, I'll have a look later —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 13:28, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

New message from A smart kitten

Hello, Matrix. You have new messages at MediaWiki talk:Blockedtext.
Message added 10:22, 6 September 2024 (UTC). You can remove this notice at any time by removing the {{Talkback}} or {{Tb}} template.

Just in case the ping didn’t send - apologies if this is a duplicate notification :) ‍—‍a smart kitten_[meow] 10:22, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Sorry for not seeing this earlier - go ahead! —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 15:41, 6 September 2024 (UTC)

Riddlesdown railway station

I see the train station clique has singled out your AfD for attention. They are a minority viewpoint, but since station AfDs don't attract many people they can override policy with local "consensus" and nonsense arguments. I'm sure you noticed essentially all the keep votes were knee-jerk indignant reactions that failed to make policy-based arguments. You're far from their first victim. I was the one who launched the 2022 RfC that closed with an overwhelming consensus that train stations are not inherently notable. I started that RfC because I was tired of AfDs ending exactly like this one, where the train station clique stonewalls any argument with "but don't you know all train stations are automatically notable?!" After the RfC, they can't say that out loud, but they just find other ways to imply it. Some people seem to have an issue following that consensus. I recommend a more pointed RfC aimed at defeating the "how dare you AfD a train station on the British railway network! They're all notable just by existing" arguments from this AfD. And if that doesn't work, then ANI is the next step. I've been here over three years and this problem is far older than my tenure here. Trainsandotherthings (talk) 20:46, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

@Trainsandotherthings: Another note, sometimes RFCs don't work! You can read Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Streetcars#RfC: Notability and Tramlink stops which is an RFC I started. But yeah, I will start an RfC soon. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 15:57, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Might want to read Wikipedia talk:Notability#RfC: Notability and British Rail stations —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 16:42, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

Selective pinging at RfC

At your RfC at template:Keep Local, you pinged some editors to join the discussion. Please take the time to review your notifications to ensure that you are properly following WP:Canvassing to get comments from all interested editors. VanIsaac, GHTV ^cont_WpWS 16:57, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@VanIsaac: I pinged Anomie, a user who was very much against my proposal. I pinged 2 users that were for this proposal. I simply forgot to ping you as I only looked at the bottom most discussion. Please take the time to review WP:AGF to ensure you are properly assuming good faith instead of jumping to allegations of canvassing. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 17:00, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

We are NOT the only four people who have participated in discussions about this template, though. You are new around here, so the only assumption that I made is that you might not be aware of policies like WP:Canvassing, hence pointing it out and asking that you check your own actions in that light. Please read my post here objectively. Your assumption of bad faith on my part is very concerning. I didn't template you, I didn't accuse you of anything, I just asked you to review your own actions in light of a policy. But your recency bias is disconcerting. There have been three deletion discussions about this template, and discussion history going back decades. There's even more in the archives of WP:CSD. Sticking to the few participants from the last couple months is a choice that indicates you don't appreciate the history of those of us who have fought to protect this project from the real harms that this template protects us from. I don't know how to convince you that history matters here, but it does. VanIsaac, GHTV ^cont_WpWS 21:57, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

@VanIsaac: Apologies for being passive aggressive in my reply, it was unwarranted on my behalf. I wouldn't call it a recency bias. It's just that I can't be asked to trawl through old discussions and see who is still active and whatnot. Also, I think a few things have changed since 2013, there are clearly more people that have accepted Commons (looking at the proportion of files on Commons vs enwiki). I also think many discussions suffered from WP:LOCALCONSENSUS, so an RfC might help.

Another important point: I don't want to get rid of KeepLocal entirely! That is not in my aim of this RfC. I have just seen a select group of en.wiki editors upload files they didn't create and then artificially downgrade end users' experience, because the Commons community can't maintain a file.

Also, you keep saying unimaginable horrors the Commons comminity has done in maintaining files. Can you give a recent example (<3 years) of Commons ruining stuff against files, because everything I've read seems to be broad paranoia against Commons?

On a completely unrelated sidenote you signed your post ending with "GHTV". Out of curiousity what does that mean?

Cheers, —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 22:20, 21 September 2024 (UTC)

I have no idea what Commons has done recently, because I learned a decade and a half ago it isn't worth contributing anything that isn't covered by PD-text or PD-simple. As soon as something can possibly have a copyright interpretation, the processes are so opaque and unreasonable that no sane person should ever be subjected to it. I don't build article content that builds upon copyrighted images hosted on Commons for clarity or demonstration for the same reason. I contribute to Commons with BSicons and images of the basic units of writing systems, and that's about it. I take up this fight every time it comes up because I don't want anyone else to go through what I did. Curating a page to be both informative and beautiful and then to have your work gutted by bureaucratic officiousness that you didn't even know about is absolutely demoralizing, and to be treated like you are some kind of criminal when you object is dehumanizing. I've never seen anything that shows they've changed over there, and people coming in trying to undermine our independence from Commons only deepens the belief that they will never change and that we at en.wiki were always just the sacrificial lambs on building Commons to service the multi-lingual wikipedia.

On the unrelated sidenote, the "GHTV" is a post-nominal for Grand High Togneme Vicarus. It is deliberately unlinked and abbreviated beyond recognition because it is nothing more than meaningless fun and is not even remotely intended to confer a single iota of authority in any matter. VanIsaac, GHTV ^cont_WpWS 02:05, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

@VanIsaac: to be honest, I don't really care if my preferred option "!wins" the RfC. I care more about getting a definitive answer, and not getting the answer "nominate everything at FfD individually". It's clear that the RfC will not succeed anyway now. —Matrix(!) {user - talk? - _uselesscontributions} 09:53, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

Well we do care if your preferred option wins. But more importantly, we care about the disrespect contained in even proposing it.

The definitive answer you are looking for is that it's none of your business if we have a copy of an image also found on Commons. If anyone has a legitimate issue with an image - i.e. an issue that has nothing to do with where it is hosted - then all the CSD, FfD, PROD, and other deletion processes are freely available. If the only concern is that it's hosted both here and at Commons, if given the choice, many of us would deny it from Commons rather than be forced to submit to their processes. But every time someone from Commons comes here and shits on us for protecting ourselves from their dysfunction, it adds to the mistrust and deepens the divide. VanIsaac, GHTV ^cont_WpWS 16:47, 22 September 2024 (UTC)