Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)

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Proper noun

Should the word "army" be capitalized when used to mention a specific army, such as the "French army"? M.Bitton (talk) 15:56, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That does seem to be the general practice in WP articles. Donald Albury 16:31, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. M.Bitton (talk) 19:08, 6 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Per French Army, yes. Article titles are a good (but not golden) source of this type of style issue. WT:MoS is also a good place to ask. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 18:37, 9 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Peter_A._Hall

Seems to be a pretty notable person. We had an article by a user who has left, which was nominated for speedy by a user who has since been banned for socking, after a discussion, started unironically by another user who has since been banned for socking.

Can someone restore this, and other history of the page. Looking at the incoming links GNG should be easily achievable.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough 18:33, 9 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]

This got turned into a dab page. I've put it in User:Rich Farmbrough/Peter A. Hall where you can sort things out. RoySmith (talk) 21:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 00:01, 10 September 2024 (UTC).[reply]

Community Wishlist: Let’s discuss how to improve template discovery and reuse

Hello everyone,

The new Community Wishlist now has a focus area named Template recall and discovery. This focus area contains popular wishes gathered from previous Wishlist editions:

Wish #1: Quickly add infobox – an easier way for newer editors to find and insert common templates such as infoboxes.
Wish #2: Quickly add favorite and related templates – a way to show recently used templates and favorited templates for frequent template use.
Wish #3: Select templates by categories – a way to find templates by "type".
Wish #4: Easy access templates – help users configure the Template dialog to show common and favorite templates.

We have shared on the focus area page how are seeing this problem, and approaching it. We also have some design mockups to show you.

We are inviting you all to discuss, hopefully support (or let us know what to improve) about the focus area. You can leave your feedback on the talkpage of the focus area.

On behalf of Community Tech, –– STei (WMF) (talk) 15:48, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Is there an automated tool that can scan an article's links and mark those necessary as dead?

Per title, thank you Darkwarriorblake (talk) 17:33, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think you're looking for https://iabot.wmcloud.org/index.php?page=runbotsingle RoySmith (talk) 17:38, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

That's it, thank you Darkwarriorblake (talk) 17:44, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Presentation of the results of the 2nd phase of the ‘Hub Discovery’ research

We would like to invite you to the presentation meeting of the results of the Hub Discovery research, corresponding to phase 2 (survey to community members), on September 20th at 6 PM UTC (find here the time zone corresponding to your country). To participate, you need to register at the following Zoom link.

The presentation will be given by Guido Gamba, external consultant hired by Wikimedistas de Uruguay, and will be simultaneously interpreted into Spanish, English and Portuguese. The presentation will be recorded and later uploaded to the Meta page where we have documented all the aspects related to the research.

Please feel free to forward this invitation to anyone you feel would like to join in the conversation.

Best regards, Paula (WDU) (talk) 20:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Paula (WDU), do you have a link to a Meta page with more information? There is no Zoom link in this message. WhatamIdoing (talk) 05:30, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings, @WhatamIdoing. Thank you for this message. I didn't realise the links were missing when I posted my message. Regards, --Paula (WDU) (talk) 14:09, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

RfC on listing Bypass Paywalls Clean in Wikipedia:Find your source

There is a request for comment on listing Bypass Paywalls Clean (a browser extension that circumvents paywalls on news websites) in Wikipedia:Find your source § Newspaper articles. If you are interested, please participate at Wikipedia talk:Find your source § RfC: Bypass Paywalls Clean. — Newslinger talk 06:09, 17 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]