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TTC streetcar map

Hello Brandon: You created File:TTC streetcar map 2020.svg in WikiMedia. Would you be willing to update the map to reflect the reactivation of 507 Long Branch plus a few other changes?

Effective November 19, 2023, 507 Long Branch operates between Humber Loop and Long Branch Loop until 10PM; thus, it is a limited service route like 508 Lake Shore. After 10PM, 501 Queen replaces 507 Long Branch after 10PM; thus, 501 has limited service west of Humber Loop and regular service east of the loop. Correction: Between Roncesvalles Avenue and Humber Loop, 501 Queen operates along The Queensway rather than Queen Street West which runs east of Roncesvalles. (The Queensway and Queen Street are essentially the same street with a change in name at Roncesvalles Avenue.) Humber Loop lies just beyond the point where 501 leaves The Queensway to turn south towards Lake Shore Boulevard West. Also, effective July 30, 2023, the 503 Kingston Rd route has regular service; it is no longer a limited service route.

Unfortunately, I lack the knowhow to change the diagram. Please let me know if you are willing to do the changes. Thanks. TheTrolleyPole (talk) 02:59, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

@TheTrolleyPole I uploaded a new version as File:TTC streetcar map.svg. – BrandonXLF (talk) 05:35, 8 January 2024 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 24

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 24th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 24 December 2021. Uh-huh, we're finally covering the good ones among the rest! Aren't you excited? Remember to include a link in double brackets to the script's .js page when you install the script, so that we can see who uses the script in WhatLinksHere! The ScriptInstaller gadget automatically does this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

Making user scripts load faster by SD0001 is this month's featured script, which caches userscripts every day to eliminate the overhead caused by force-downloading the newest version of scripts every time you open a Wikipedia page. Despite being released in April 2021, our best script scouters have failed to locate it due to its omission from the US of L. For security reasons, the script only supports loading JavaScript pages.

Newly maintained scripts

After earthly attempts at improving the original have failed...

• Aaron Liu has created What redirects here from Guarapiranga/WhatRedirectsHere; his fork includes support for every MediaWiki wiki, corrected link positions, an access key, and some rudimentary translation.
• Ahecht has created a fork of SiBr4/TemplateSearch, which adds the "TP:" shortcut for "Template:" in the search box, and updated it to be compatible with Vector 2022.
• AquilaFasciata/goToTopFast is a much faster fork of the classic goToTop script that also adds compatibility for Minerva and Vector 2022.
• Mesidast/Tidy citations is a fork of Meteor sandwich yum/Tidy citations is a fork of Waldyrious/formatcitations. It configurably harmonizes whitespace and cleans up parameters in citation templates, descriptive edit summary included.

Without caching. Each script takes 400–500ms. A particularly large script takes 1.11 s! Internet download speed is 50 Mbps.

With caching enabled. Each script takes just 1-2 ms to load.

Improve a script

Unfortunately, this section has remained nearly identical. Help us out here!

• Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
• To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
• We want...

• ...a mark-as-read button and watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
• ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
• ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

Requested scripts

• A simple script to second or archive proposed deletions
• A script to auto-expand V22 ToC sections like this demo
• A WP:3O response tool that can automatically remove the relevant request from the 3O dashboard
• A byte filter to be split from Nux/LongTableFilters
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests

New scripts

• DannyS712/AbuseFilterMessageLinks add links to the "warn" and "disallow" messages in edit filters.
• Diegodlh/Web2Cit/script adds an option to use m:Web2Cit (which WP:ProveIt also uses) instead of mw:Citoid to generate citations in the Visual Editor.
• Dragoniez/SuppressEnterInForm stops you from accidentally submitting anything due to pressing enter while in the smaller box, and works on almost anything... except the InputBox element itself, used in subscription lists and the Signpost Crossword! Oh, the humanity!

• 

  Doǵu/Adiutor (pictured) provides a nice, integrated interface to do some twinkley tasks such as copyvio detection, CSD tagging, and viewing the most recent diff.

• 

  Eejit43 has quite the aesthetically pleasing scripts, all made in TypeScript.
  • /afcrc-helper is a replacement for the unmaintained Enterprisey/AFCRHS and processes Redirects for Creation and Categories for Creation requests.
  • /ajax-undo stops the "undo" button from taking you to another page while providing a text box to provide a reason for the revert.
  • /redirect-helper (pictured) adds a much better interface for editing and redirects, including categorization, for which valid categories are dictated by /redirect-helper.json.
  • /rmtr-helper helps process technical requested moves without being able to actually move them.

• 

  Guycn2/UserInfoPopup (pictured) adds a flyout after the watchlist star on userspace pages that displays the common information you might use about a user.
• Jeeputer/editCounter, under userspace, adds a portlet link to count your edits by namespace, put them in a table, and put that table in a hardcoded subpage, all in the background.
• Hilst/Scripts/sectionLinks converts all section links to use the § sign, which are known to be preferred over the ugly # by 99% of the devils I've met.
• Moonythedwarf/extra-unreliable highlights phrases commonly used in spammed and POV'd paragraphs.

• 

  NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/FormattedEditRequest (pictured) generates a wikitext-formatted diff view of any changes you've made that you can copy and paste anywhere.
• PrimeHunter/Category source.js adds portlet links to tell you where a category for an article comes from and supports those from template transclusions.
• Qwerfjkl/massCFD creates mass WP:CfD nominations.
• Rublov/refspace highlights footnote spacing errors in red.
• Sophivorus's MiniEdit adds some nice, li'l buttons next to paragraphs to edit their wikitext with a minimal interface.

Edit-listings

• Dragoniez/ToollinkTweaks adds more and customizable links next to users in page history, logs, watchlist, recent changes, etc.
• Firefly/more-block-info optimizes the display of rangeblocks in contribution pages. Doesn't work outside the English locale of any wiki, unfortunately.
• Ingenuity/AbuseFilterContribs adds the edit filters that an edit tripped (if any) to a user's contributions page.
  • Nardog/ExamineMore makes it so the paging at Special:AbuseFilter/examine actually works, pending a fix to T292764.
• NguoiDungKhongDinhDanh/AjaxLoader makes paging links (e.g. older 50, 500, newest) load without refreshing and makes you realize how slow your internet actually is.

Appearance-ricing

• Ahecht/RedirectID adds the redirect target to all redirects. For all the WP:NAVPOPS haters. (Do these exist?)
• Dragoniez/MarkBLockedGlobal: Remember the "strike blocked usernames" gadget? Now you can use a red, dotted line to highlight rangeblocks and global locks!
• GhostInTheMachine/GraphicReplyLink replaces the [ reply ] link with 💬, which is some sort of rainy cloud I guess?

• 

  Jonesey/common (pictured) has some styles to overhaul your Vector 2022 experience. It reduces padding everywhere, and makes the top bar animation faster.
  • Aaron Liu/V22 is a fork that narrows the sidebars instead of upheaving them, reverts the January 2024 dropdown changes, and restores the old page-link color for links that don't go outside the current wiki.
• Nardog: SmartDiff is a spiritual successor to Enterprisey/fancy-diffs. It makes the page title part of links in diffs clickable, along with template and parser function calls. Unnamed parameters can be configured per template to also be linked. All links are styled based on the normal CSS classes of rendered links.
• Phlsph7/ClassicalTOC (Vector 2022) reinserts the inline table of contents to pages under Vector 2022.
• For the paranoid: Rublov/anonymize replaces your username at the top of the screen with the generic "User page" text. Remember, it is your duty to persuade everyone that editing is an honor.
• Sideswipe9th/Vector 2022 Floating Tools Menu moves the Page Tools menu to the left and makes it float along with the table of contents.
• Sm8ps/SectionEditing makes pressing Tab ↹ toggle the visibility of the tiny [ edit ] links next to section headings.. Not a great name, eh?
• The wub/tocExpandAll adds a button on top of the floating ToC to expand or collapse subheadings.

Permissions required!

• Ahecht/potd-helper: A script to post the picture of the day. A powerful upgrade for your mop.

• 

  Dragoniez
  • /AjaxBlock provides a dialog box for easy input of reasons while blocking users.
  • /Selective Rollback (pictured) provides a dialog box to customize rollback edit summaries and does them without reloading the page. Seriously, why doesn't MediaWiki already do this?
• Theleekycauldron/DYK promoter automates (nearly) all the work needed to post a DYK hook.

QOL shortcuts

• BrandonXLF/SVGEditor lets you edit any file that is an SVG, straight from the file page.
• DanCherek/UAABotRemover adds a portlet link to enable a removal shortcut of faulty reports from Wikipedia:Usernames for administrator attention.
• DreamRimmer/BlankUserPage helps you destroy webhost-ers' hopes and dreams with a user-friendly dialog box.
• ESanders (WMF)/commentlinks.js adds a "link" button right after the "reply" button while the WMF struggles to reach feature parity with Convenient Discussions.
• Isaacl/copy-comment-link-to-clipboard does exactly what you'd think it does, but in Wikitext.
• FenrisAureus/SimpleStatus adds a shortcut at the top to edit your /Status subpage while providing a pre-made template.
• Fred Gandt/addCloneClearButtonAboveScributoConsole: What a mouthful! Yet all it does (no offense) is add another Clear button on top of the Lua module debug console.
• Guarapiranga/GlobalWatchlistLink adds a link to metawiki:Special:GlobalWatchlist next to the normal watchlist.
• Nardog
  • PasteToCommons adds a paste handler to upload the pasted image to Wikimedia Commons.
  • Unpipe tries to detect violations of WP:NOPIPE and fix them as much as possible.
• Ohconfucius/tometricunits automatically adds unit conversions of imperial units in brackets after their uses per MOS:UNITS.
• Suntooooth
  • /flickrsearch adds a portlet link to search for uploadable flickr images about the subject.
  • /randomincategory adds a portlet link when on Category pages to go to a random page in the current category.
• Vghfr/EasyTemplates adds a portlet link to automatically insert some of the most common inline {{fix}} templates.

Yes, we're just doing 'em as we go now. Thanks for reading through this looong issue, if you did! I'm sure this'll send a record for the longest issue ev-ah. You may need to wait even longer for the last issue, as our reserve of old-y and goodie scripts have ran out... We encourage you to try and do some of the requests or improvement tasks. See you in Summer, hopefully!

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Citoid error when using AutoRef

Hello, @BrandonXLF. I have been using your AutoRef userscript for a while now but recently, it has broken for me and keeps giving me a "Unable to get the data for the provided reference from citoid. Make sure it is valid and your internet connection to functioning." error whenever I try putting in any link. Is there a fix to this? Thank you, Thecowboygilbert - (talk) ♥ 17:27, 11 March 2024 (UTC)

@Thecowboygilbert Sorry for the late reply. Is this issue still occurring for you? If so, could you provide an example of a URL that times out? – BrandonXLF (talk) 07:32, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

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CollapseSections in Vector 2022

a screenshot of the issue

The CollapseSections script looks a bit wonky on the skin Vector 2022. The arrows are there but they're mostly covered by the whitespace, making the clickable space rather small.

I will be using it nonetheless, though! — Mignof (talk | contribs) 17:59, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

@Mignof Thanks for your perseverance! It should be fixed now. – BrandonXLF (talk) 07:53, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

ShowTemplates: portlet link issue

Hey, great job on ShowTemplates, it is really wonderful. I want to ask you to fix the script a little bit.

var portletItem = $(mw.util.addPortletLink('p-tb', '#', 'Show templates'));

portletItem.click(function() {

→

var portletItem = mw.util.addPortletLink('p-tb', '#', 'Show templates');

$( portletItem ).find( 'a' ).click( function( e ) {
	e.preventDefault();

Currently the click handler is implemented on the list item, not on the link in it, and it ends up adding # into the URL (and moving the user back to the start of the page) because of it. Thanks in advance. stjn 23:34, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

@Stjn  Done. Thank you for the bug fix I'm glad you're enjoying the script! – BrandonXLF (talk) 02:28, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

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Dear BrandonXLF,

I've been using your user script that automatically updates the notification count for quite some time now; I love it! I had a quick idea that could make the script even better. Instead of having new notifications show up as a grey number under the notification/notices icon when the script runs after a notification/notice is received, would it be possible to have it remain in its original red/blue colour instead (as the notification/notices panel wasn't opened yet)? This might be due to the fact that when the count is updated, the notification/noties are seen "as read".

Btw, I'm on Vector 2022.

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Linkcount not responding

Linkcount is not responding. Bean49 (talk) 11:22, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

I think they changed the table structure and the SQL query doesn't give response in time. Bean49 (talk) 10:38, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

@Bean49 Thanks for the heads up. I'm not sure what happened, but it seems like restarting the service worked. Let me know if you encounter any more issues. – BrandonXLF (talk) 14:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

QuickEdit and updates to heading markup

Hey, another thing I notice more and more: currently and in the future heading HTML will change. This already affects QuickEdit script on pages with DiscussionTools enabled, leading to the wrong rendering of QuickEdit textarea. You can see it on this page with dtenable=1 in URL. It would be great to prepare the script to the changes and render QuickEdit correctly on pages where heading markup has already changed. stjn 14:36, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

 Done – BrandonXLF (talk) 23:57, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

About QuickEdit

Hey BrandonXLF! Thanks for making this tool. I wanted to let you know that the script is misbehaving on non-Vector skins, most likely as a result of the new markup. When I try to open the script's editing dialog, it removes all other text from the page rather than placing the dialog in between the text. Let me know if you have any questions! —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 07:24, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

@TechnoSquirrel69  Done - Thanks for your feedback! I also had to adjust the code to support the DiscussionTools heading format, so please let me know if anything doesn't work as expected. – BrandonXLF (talk) 23:56, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

Thank you! Everything looks like it's back to normal on both articles and talk pages. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 23:59, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

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Rogério da Silva Santana santos (talk) 21:09, 3 June 2024 (UTC)

TodoList: Add portlet link to sticky header also?

It seems unintentional that the Todo portlet link appears in p-personal but not p-personal-sticky-header. Remsense诉 21:18, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

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QuickEdit bug

Hai! I've recently started using QuickEdit on the English Wiktionary, and, although it mostly works fine, there is one bug I'd like to report. When previewing an edited section, any quotations in that section are impossible to view, since the "quotations" button that you'd ordinarily click on to view said quotations fails to appear; this makes it impossible to preview any edits to these quotations when using QuickEdit. Just letting ya know! Whoop whoop pull up ^{Bitching Betty ⚧️ Averted crashes} 03:10, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

HotDefaultSort: Avoid auto saving by holding Ctrl?

In HotCat, if you hold Ctrl when clicking "OK", category changes won't auto save letting you make other edits (see Wikipedia:HotCat#Avoid auto saving). Is it possible with the script HotDefaultSort? 2001:14BA:9C40:0:48C8:91BB:9341:38BB (talk) 21:12, 8 July 2024 (UTC)

No it is not currently. Can you explain your use case for such a feature? – BrandonXLF (talk) 07:19, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Feedback on QuickEdit

Hello BrandonXLF! I've been using your QuickEdit user scripts for quite some time (and am loving it)! I could not see myself editing without it now :P. I just had a thought that could help make it even "quicker". How about having CTRL+Enter automatically do the "Save" action, just as it does in the normal editing in "Publish Changes"? Thanks so much! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 15:52, 29 June 2024 (UTC)

@Cocobb8 I added an access key for the letter "s" to trigger the save button. – BrandonXLF (talk) 07:09, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Thank you!! Cocobb8 (💬 talk • ✏️ contribs) 17:23, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Restorer script bug

Hello! I am a rollbacker from Kazakh Wikipedia. Today I created "User:Nurtenge/common.js" and "User:Nurtenge/Restorer.js" pages and I got a "Restore" button on Kazakh Wikipedia. But... There are TWO "Restore" buttons! They both perform the same task, but there are two of them and it looks ugly. How can I fix this error? Nurtenge (talk) 15:56, 4 July 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Nurtenge, can you share a URL of a history page where both buttons appear. Thanks, – BrandonXLF (talk) 06:21, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

Hello, I figured it out, it's not a bug, it is my bad :) I created this page on Meta and created this page on Kazakh Wikipedia. In Meta-Wiki, I used your JavaScript on English Wikipedia, and on Kazakh Wikipedia I created my own JavaScript page where I wrote some English words in Kazakh. Your JavaScript code gave me a restore button on all wikis. And my JavaScript code translated into Kazakh gave me a restore button only on Kazakh Wikipedia. Therefore, on Kazakh Wikipedia I now have two restore buttons :) Thank you!

By the way, it would be cool if you added the ability to write a reason for restoring the page version -- Nurtenge (talk) 16:51, 13 July 2024 (UTC)

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Scripts++ Newsletter – Issue 25

Hey there, welcome to the 25th issue of the Wikipedia Scripts++ Newsletter, covering all our favorite new and updated user scripts since 1 March 2024. We've got a ton of wonderful editors taking back their pitchforks today. Don't worry, for they come in peace, to forcibly fix and extend existing scripts you use with sheer passion. There's so many, them forks have got what's basically their own column now! gift us with some rows before it's too late Aaron Liu (talk) 04:00, 1 August 2024 (UTC)

Got anything good? Tell us about your new, improved, old, or messed-up script here!

Featured script

inline-diff-inline-patrol by Ponor is this edition's featured script. By loading diffs inline on every page that shows a list of changes, it implements the 2023 community wish m:Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Inline diffs and inline patrol. Hopefully we won't need this script anymore soon, with the WMF's focus on the backlog...

Improve a script

• Many of our favorite scripts such as Fred Gandt/userResourceManager, Guarapiranga/search-shortcuts and Bradv/Superlinks haven't been updated for Vector 2022. You could be the one to change that!
• Elominius/media timer works, but its UI looks alien. Someone could improve it...
• To a lesser extent, the same goes for PrimeHunter/Search sort. I wish someone would integrate the sorts into the sort menu instead of adding 11 portlet links.
• We want...

• ...watchlist notices support for Aaron Liu/Watchlyst Greybar Unsin
• ...a tool to automatically fix CAT:BROKENREFs, preferably a fork/addition to TheJJJunk/ARA
• ...a fix/fork of DannyS712/SectionRemover to make it work

Requested scripts

• Automatically delink all duplicate links within the same section per MOS:LINKONCE.
• Collapsible parentheses in body text, which had a ridiculously long original request title and was accidentally moved to WP:US/L by me. Oops!
• An easily configurable script to add a link to the #p-vector-user-menu-overflow portlet with a name, target, and icon. This one should be a relatively easier one. I would do it myself, but I'm too busy rotting away on Celeste (video game).
• Preview an edit under the mobile viewport on desktop, with perhaps MediaWiki:Gadget-mobile-sidebar.js used for inspiration.
• ...and many more, all available at Wikipedia:User scripts/Requests. Jeeputer and Nardog have been the most active on the page in the past five months.

Scripts++ Newsletter

Updated scripts

• After the ＲＩＩＪ(rewrite it in jQuery) update, Aaron Liu: Watchlyst Greybar Unsin has a dismiss button that allows you to mark an item as read in one click and cycle to the next Watchlist item.
• Lordseriouspig/StatusChangerImproved is just like Enterprisey's script, except you select your status from a dropdown instead of cycling through them with a button. The WMF operates out of car-centric infrastructure anyway. Shame!

Newly maintained scripts

• Aaron Liu has created Duplinks from Evad37/duplinks-alt; his fork adds a config variable to automatically highlight duplicate links on the loading of any page where the portlet link would've appeared.
• BilledMammal/Move+ expands the powers of User:TheTVExpert/rmCloser to include common procedures done with the art of moving pages.
• On a holiday? Somewhere? Gotta learn ye ABCs? CanonNi/StatusSetter puts the fun into Enterprisey/StatusChanger with a quadruple more statuses. That starts with a C!
• In our continuing trend(s?), DaxServer/DiscussionCloser forks DannyS712/DiscussionCloser to make it work. Sadly, this is the end of our lexicographic combo.
• Andrybak:
  • user-tabs-on-contribs is a fork of User:Enterprisey/user-tabs-on-contribs for Vector 2022.
  • Archiver is a fork of User:Enterprisey/archiver with automatic calculation of the destination archive subpage and with support for non-Vector skins.
• Quite coincidentally, Elli/OneClickArchiver has been forked from User:Equazcion/OneClickArchiver to work with the mw:Heading HTML changes.
• FlightTime/OneClickArchiver forks the same thing but also no longer nonsensically prepends {{clear}} to page archives.
  • There are now over 7 OneClickArchivers, legacy or not.

New scripts

• 

  Padlock for semi−move protection−designed by User:Chaotic Enby

  Aaron Liu: MoveTop adds a different padlock topicon for each level of move-protection.
• Andrybak/Not around can help you mark talk pages of inactive users with {{not around}}.
• BrandonXLF/AddCopied automatically tags talk pages of pages you've copied between with {{copied}}.
• Bugghost/UserRoleIndicator adds text labels (which default to emoji) to user links that label the user's usergroups. Wow, that's a mouthful
• CanonNi/AlertAssistant adds a Twinkle-style dialog for alerting users about contentious topics.
• CFA/AttributeTranslation automatically tags articles translated from other places with appropriate attribution.
• In the defense of the 'pedia, the humble Jeeputer/defconIndicator adds the WP:WIKIDEFCON status to the toolbar.
• Tired of staring at a bunch of filtering text and waiting for darn filter logs to load? Msz2001/AbuseFilter analyzer can parse abuse filters into a visual syntax tree and evaluate locally on-demand!
• Polygnotus/DuplicateReferences finds references with the same link and displays the number of them along with a button to add the {{duplicated citations}} tag under the references section. Being lazy has never been easier!
• fastest gun on the net Ponor/really-quick-block really quick add to contribution lists three buttons awesome
• TheTechie/Help Me Tool is a quick and easy way of responding to {{help me}} requests.
• Per MOS:CONFORM, ZKang123/TitleCaseConverter converts all citation titles to... title case, unfortunately.

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Autoref

Hello! I couldn't pick which of your scripts is most vital to me at this point, but it may be this one. Thank you so much for them all! Is there a way one could optionally omit the <ref>...</ref> tags when using Autoref? I'm often working within fully-specified reference lists, e.g. with {{Refbegin}} / {{Refend}}, so I presently have to remove the tags each time. Remsense诉 04:57, 4 August 2024 (UTC)

Pinger

Hi BrandonXLF. I disclosed a conflict of interest and requested some corrections/updates to the Pinger page at Talk:Pinger, but nobody has responded yet. I saw that you were the largest contributor to that page and was wondering if you'd be willing to review the edits I requested as an impartial editor. Thanks for your consideration - Andrea WikiEd272 (talk) 18:10, 6 August 2024 (UTC)

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MoreDiffInfo icons in darkmode

It's hard to see User:BrandonXLF/MoreDiffInfo's bomb/thumbs-up icons in darkmode. Could you use ones that are visible in light & dark modes? I found 2 that I'm using in my fork that work in both, and are both quite small (178 b & 314 b). Thank you for the tool!   ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf)  11:19, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

@Tom.Reding No problem and thanks for bringing this issue to my attention. I've decided to invert the colour of the current icons for dark mode. – BrandonXLF (talk) 13:43, 16 August 2024 (UTC)

Re:Talk

Hello, You may not know me but this is my work and wasn't to be touched. I didn't appreciate this at all . 174.67.167.46 (talk) 17:26, 18 August 2024 (UTC)

FFU helper

Thank you for the helpful script! I came across this but today, though:

At WP:FFU, comment on a request with {{subst:ffu|afc}}, add the 7 day hold request and notify a user (in this case an IP adress). Notification is unexpectedly sent out twice (today at User talk:83.28.217.24). best, NotAGenious (talk) 14:53, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

@NotAGenious My best guess for what happened is that you accidentally pressed "Save" twice. I've updated the script so it can't be pressed twice anymore. Please let me know if it continues to happen. Thanks, – BrandonXLF (talk) 17:39, 25 August 2024 (UTC)

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Your recent article submission to Articles for Creation has been reviewed. Unfortunately, it has not been accepted at this time. The reason left by Robert McClenon was: Please check the submission for any additional comments left by the reviewer. You are encouraged to edit the submission to address the issues raised and resubmit after they have been resolved.

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Restorer script

Hello, could you please add a confirmation button to your script? I am often using my phone using desktop view instead of mobile view, which means I will sometimes accidentally tap on the button to restore. Note that this has also happened using my laptop, for example one simple accidental tap with your finger on a touchpad will trigger the script to activate. This has happened on several occasions. Would you be able to code a confirmation button into it? Thanks. Cutlass^Ciera 15:56, 25 September 2024 (UTC)

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Nomination for deletion of Module:Jctint/core/doc

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