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Paulinefowler666 (talk) 16:06, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

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Julie Sergeant

Hi. If you just add the person's age in brackets then it will not change and you will have to go back every year to update it. This does it automatically: (1970-01-25) 25 January 1970 You can also use 23 March 1935(1935-03-23) (aged 62) when the person is deceased. (Click on Edit Source to see the code) Good luck with your editing. Enjoy Wikipedia. Roundtheworld (talk) 17:47, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I did visual editing so I didn't see the source code. I won't make the mistake again, thanks. Paulinefowler666 (talk) 20:39, 5 May 2024 (UTC)

May 2024

Hello. Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. I noticed that one or more recent edit(s) you made did not have an edit summary. You can use the edit summary field to explain your reasoning for an edit, or to provide a description of what the edit changes. Summaries save time for other editors and reduce the chances that your edit will be misunderstood. For some edits, an adequate summary may be quite brief.

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Please provide an edit summary for every edit you make. With a Wikipedia account you can give yourself a reminder by setting Preferences → Editing → Prompt me when entering a blank edit summary, and then click the "Save" button. Thanks! DMacks (talk) 02:24, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi! I have been using AutoEd and the cleanup script on some pages and it doesn't automate a edit summary sometimes. I'll be sure to put them in going forward. Paulinefowler666 (talk) 02:27, 9 May 2024 (UTC)

List of Intel Core processors

Hi Paulinefowler666, why did you remove the anchors from the section headings on that article? I'm guessing it's because of an error caused by the quote marks within quote marks in the anchor code? — AP 499D25 (talk) 11:36, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi, sorry, I find articles on the Check Wikipedia tool and put them through Auto-Ed/Auto Formatter to correct the errors. It's not always correct and I'm sorry if it removed something integral to the article!! Paulinefowler666 (talk) 14:25, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

Oh, okay. I looked at the documentation for Template:Anchor, and apparently it says when substituting the anchor, certain characters such as double quote marks have to be "escaped" by using equivalent code so that the anchor actually works, which is what I've now done here. — AP 499D25 (talk) 14:37, 10 May 2024 (UTC)

List of Symphyotrichum species

I undid your changes to this featured list. You can see the explanation on the history page as to why. It seems you are new to editing. Welcome! It's better to get your feet wet in small articles rather than large ones such as this. If you have questions, let me know. – Elizabeth (Eewilson) (tag or ping me) (talk) 00:26, 11 May 2024 (UTC)

Question

Hi Pauline! Do you recall what tool (e.g. AWB) or editor (e.g. VisualEditor) you were using when you made this edit? It appears that your edit removed an anchor in a header, breaking some incoming section links (see the removal of <span class="anchor" id="Per student"></span>), and also removed some non-breaking spaces (see the removal of &​nbsp;). If there is a tool that is doing that without your knowledge, I'm just looking to know what it is so I can make a bug report and have it fixed. (If you're making those changes intentionally, I'd just advise you to refrain from changing code if you do not know what it does.) Cheers, Sdkb ^talk 22:09, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

Hmm, seeing @AP 499D25's post above, I'm wondering if it may be WP:AUTOED? Sdkb ^talk 22:14, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

@Sdkb At first I thought the removal of the section anchors were because of double-quote marks in the anchors, until I noticed all the anchors had been removed from List of AMD Ryzen processors as well, where no invalid characters were ever used in any of the anchors: diff. In fact I regularly update that article myself and I'm the one who added all those anchors, and linked to them from various other pages, so I know exactly what they are being used for. — AP 499D25 (talk) 01:17, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

By Auto-formatter, Pauline meant de:Benutzer:TMg/autoFormatter.js, not a synonym for AutoEd. I tested the script on the AMD page and it seems to remove all anchor tags; not AutoEd's fault.

@Paulinefowler666: Please don't use foreign style-correction tools on enwiki! We have different style rules than the Germans here. Also, please read WP:COSMETICBOT. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:58, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

My bad, because the tool is listed on enwiki I thought it was fine to use on here. I go off of things on checkwiki.toolforge.org and try to correct them with the tools listed (AutoEd & AutoFormatter) but I have stopped using AutoFormatter now knowing that it has caused a lot of mistakes. Paulinefowler666 (talk) 14:26, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Aaron Liu, for what it's worth, AutoFormatter is designed to be used on any wiki (m:User:TMg/autoFormatter); it won't apply dewiki-specific formatting to other wikis.
It should, as with any other semi automated tool, be used carefully and with oversight. — Qwerfjkltalk 14:53, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

If it's intended to be used here, it should probably be made compatible with our MOS, since there will always be more cautious and less cautious users. Courtesy pinging TMg, who appears to be the maintainer on de-WP. Sdkb ^talk 15:17, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

I put a reference to this discussion at de:Benutzer Diskussion:TMg/autoFormatter#Does a bunch of weird stuff like removing anchors and nbsp's yesterday. Aaron Liu (talk) 17:11, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Three things

This section is an excerpt from Wikipedia talk:AutoEd § Three things.[edit]

I'm coming here from User talk:Paulinefowler666 § Question, where I expressed concern about this edit, which I suspect may have been made using AutoEd. If so, and if the bugs are replicable, then there appear to be three issues:

1. Non-breaking spaces specified with &​nbsp; are being removed and converted to normal spaces.
2. Substituted anchors in section headings are being removed.
3. There is no tag or autosummary for edits made using AutoEd, which makes it hard to trace errors and report bugs like the two above.

I might be diagnosing what's happening here incorrectly (in which case just lmk), but if not, these are significant issues and should be resolved before this script is used further. Best, Sdkb ^talk 22:22, 15 May 2024 (UTC)

I have a config that's even completer than complete, and I do not replicate any of these issues. Plus, the editor is an IP, so I doubt that they are running userscripts. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:41, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

The editor who made the edit is Paulinefowler666, not an IP. Sdkb ^talk 01:44, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Okay, I got confused while navigating diffs, sorry. I'll take a look at the other scripts they have and see if there's anything that can cause this. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:45, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

The culprit for removing the nbsp seems to be de:Benutzer:TMg/autoFormatter.js. Aaron Liu (talk) 01:53, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

After loading up the appropriate revisions, the German invader caused the exact erroneous changes. It seems like the invader prosecutes anchor tags that aren't self-closed (which were recently fixed into being self-closed in the university article as a linter error. So, the {{anchor}} template may be rapidly generating linter errors?) Aaron Liu (talk) 02:00, 16 May 2024 (UTC)