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Richard27182 needs your advice.

Hi Buffaboy.  Remember me?  I'm the one whose sandbox you accidentally altered and then fixed.  (Don't worry, that was never a problem.)  The reason I'm writing is I need your advice. I'm trying to correct an error in an article.  I made the appropriate correction, which was promptly reverted.  Rather than getting involved in an "editing war," I contacted the reverter and tried to work something out, but to no avail.  So I started a discussion on the article's talk page.  All I ask of you is to check it out and weigh in with your opinion.  The talk page is Talk:Wanderer of the Wasteland (1945 film).  Thanks!
Richard27182 (talk) 09:53, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Richard27182, I think you can WP:BEBOLD and revert their edit once more now that you have a detailed description on the article talk page. You need to be careful doing this however as you can breach the 3-edit revert rule. Good luck, Buffaboy ^talk 15:08, 6 June 2015 (UTC).

VisualEditor News #3—2015

Did you know?

When you click on a link to an article, you now see more information:

The link tool has been re-designed:

There are separate tabs for linking to internal and external pages.

The user guide has more information about how to use VisualEditor.

Since the last newsletter, the Editing Team has created new interfaces for the link and citation tools, as well as fixing many bugs and changing some elements of the design. Some of these bugs affected users of VisualEditor on mobile devices. Status reports are posted on Mediawiki.org. The worklist for April through June is available in Phabricator.

A test of VisualEditor's effect on new editors at the English Wikipedia has just completed the first phase. During this test, half of newly registered editors had VisualEditor automatically enabled, and half did not. The main goal of the study is to learn which group was more likely to save an edit and to make productive, unreverted edits. Initial results will be posted at Meta later this month.

Recent improvements

Auto-fill features for citations are available at a few Wikipedias through the citoid service. Citoid takes a URL or DOI for a reliable source, and returns a pre-filled, pre-formatted bibliographic citation. If Citoid is enabled on your wiki, then the design of the citation workflow changed during May. All citations are now created inside a single tool. Inside that tool, choose the tab you want (⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-auto⧽, ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-manual⧽, or ⧼citoid-citeFromIDDialog-mode-reuse⧽). The cite button is now labeled with the word "⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽" rather than a book icon, and the autofill citation dialog now has a more meaningful label, "⧼Citoid-citeFromIDDialog-lookup-button⧽", for the submit button.

The link tool has been redesigned based on feedback from Wikipedia editors and user testing. It now has two separate sections: one for links to articles and one for external links. When you select a link, its pop-up context menu shows the name of the linked page, a thumbnail image from the linked page, Wikidata's description, and/or appropriate icons for disambiguation pages, redirect pages and empty pages. Search results have been reduced to the first five pages. Several bugs were fixed, including a dark highlight that appeared over the first match in the link inspector (T98085).  

The special character inserter in VisualEditor now uses the same special character list as the wikitext editor. Admins at each wiki can also create a custom section for frequently used characters at the top of the list. Please read the instructions for customizing the list at mediawiki.org. Also, there is now a tooltip to describing each character in the special character inserter (T70425).

Several improvements have been made to templates. When you search for a template to insert, the list of results now contains descriptions of the templates. The parameter list inside the template dialog now remains open after inserting a parameter from the list, so that users don’t need to click on "⧼visualeditor-dialog-transclusion-add-param⧽" each time they want to add another parameter (T95696). The team added a new property for TemplateData, "Example", for template parameters. This optional, translatable property will show up when there is text describing how to use that parameter (T53049).

The design of the main toolbar and several other elements have changed slightly, to be consistent with the MediaWiki theme. In the Vector skin, individual items in the menu are separated visually by pale gray bars. Buttons and menus on the toolbar can now contain both an icon and a text label, rather than just one or the other. This new design feature is being used for the cite button on wikis where the Citoid service is enabled.

The team has released a long-desired improvement to the handling of non-existent images. If a non-existent image is linked in an article, then it is now visible in VisualEditor and can be selected, edited, replaced, or removed.

Let's work together

• Share your ideas and ask questions at mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.
• The weekly task triage meetings continue to be open to volunteers, each Wednesday at 12:00 (noon) PDT (19:00 UTC). Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:Talk:VisualEditor/Portal. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration as a Q4 blocker. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the Editing team's Q4 blocker project with the bug.
• If your Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, or other community wants to have VisualEditor made available by default to contributors, then please contact James Forrester.
• If you would like to request the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki, please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.

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Second opinion on grammar question

Hi Buffaboy,

I posted a section to Talk:List of nuclear reactors#Grammatical_consistensy:_.22Shutdown.22_or_.22shut_down.22_and_capitalization about how to correct grammatical issues on that page, and I am looking for more input on whether the page should be changed according to my suggestions. As a copy editor, do you have anything to say about it?

Thanks! Mechanic1c (talk) 19:58, 6 June 2015 (UTC)

Editor of the Week

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week for your cool headedness to the benefit Wikipedia articles. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

User:John from Idegon submitted the following nomination for Editor of the Week:

I am honored to nominate User Buffaboy for this Award. He has a solid body of work, mostly relating to the human geography of New York State. The exemplary thing that led me to nominate him is his work on a really difficult (due to the SPA editors there) article, Utica, New York. He kept his cool in a hostile talk environment, requesting assistance at ANI when he needed it. His ANI posting would make a great textbook example!. He has since single handedly taken the article to a point where he filed for a GA review the end of April. I leave him for your consideration. As if that were not enough, he has begun the process of trying to take Fort Wayne, Indiana, quite out of his comfort zone, to GA. John from Idegon (talk) 06:46, 27 April 2015 (UTC). This nomination was seconded by User:L235 and User:Buster7.

You can copy the following text to your user page to display a user box proclaiming your selection as Editor of the Week:

{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Editor Retention/Editor of the Week/Recipient user box}}

Thanks again for your efforts! . Buster Seven Talk 12:07, 7 June 2015 (UTC)