User talk:MSGJ

Code review/edit request

If possible, could you review and (unless you spot an issue) merge the request I have pending at Module talk:Check for unknown parameters? It is blocking my forward progress on a project. Would greatly appreciate it! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 04:04, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

No problem.  Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:42, 28 June 2026 (UTC)

Savile Club

I am a neutral and experienced editor who rated an article for two of its WikiProjects. You can disagree with my rating, but leaving the article without a rating is an unproductive edited. Were you acting on behalf of a specific WikiProject? I was rating for architecture and organizations. Maybe this is a case when the other WikiProjects should add a different rating. BTW, I started editing/adding sources to this article after I added the ratiing. This is not "my" article. Rublamb (talk) 22:44, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

I tried to explain in my edit summary. You set the parameter |B=start or |start=B or something like that, which is invalid. I could not fix it because I don't know if you meant B or start. So please fix it yourself, thank you — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 22:57, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Got it. My bad. Rublamb (talk) 23:03, 7 July 2026 (UTC)

Main page

Where can I find the discussion for why the "encyclopedia" link was removed? Idacticus (talk) 00:04, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Please check Talk:Main Page/Archive 211#Sea of blue — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 07:14, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks! Idacticus (talk) 00:54, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

I'm confused: those two words aren't together, which seems to be what MOS:SEAOFBLUE is about. (It even suggests rephrasing to put a non-link between two links.) Idacticus (talk) 01:01, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

We had "free encyclopedia" before, which is two separately linked words next to each other. But I think some people also use SEAOFBLUE to mean there are too many links generally — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:58, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

That seems awfully subjective. Shouldn't we have a link for every interesting idea that we can explore? Idacticus (talk) 00:49, 11 July 2026 (UTC)

WiR messaging

Hallo, You sent out the last WiR message formatted so that the heading was "July 2026", which usually means that someone has sent a templated warning message. Previous WiR posts had headings like "Women in Red - June 2026", which is better. But thanks for helping the WiR project - I feel mildly guilty at not stepping forward to help with the admin, just contributing each month. Thanks. PamD 07:43, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

That was not the worst thing I did last month. The initial batch so were so badly formatted I had to do a mass rollback and send out again! I found the instructions rather opaque, but stepped in because no one else was doing it. — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 09:55, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

WikiProject templates

Hi Martin, thanks for helping with template updates re renamed assessment categories as requested/recorded elsewhere. There are still some incoming links to dead categories recorded at WP:CFDWML, and while it would be satisfying to fix links to redirects or deleted pages, those are not very important.

I'm finding some entire assessment category hierarchies that are empty. I left a note for Gonnym at Template talk:WikiProject Belize, in case it was his recent edit that emptied that set, but then I came across the same current result at Category:2010s articles by quality. You made the latest edit to Template:WikiProject 2010s removing the importance assessments, but can you figure out why are the quality assessments are not working, please? – Fayenatic London 13:53, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Ah, it must be this edit. All other examples I checked of WikiProject banner templates tagged as inactive had no assessment categories. I guess someone will redirect that set to WP Years or the like. – Fayenatic London 14:54, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Yes, the project has been marked as inactive since 11 June, and that disables all the assessments — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 17:19, 10 July 2026 (UTC)

Articles for Creation backlog drive

Hello MSGJ:

WikiProject Articles for creation is holding a month long Backlog Drive in August!
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"Film Grain Modeling" listed at Redirects for discussion

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