User talk:ShakespeareFan00

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What is it you want to know? Kellen ^T 08:51, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Nope, no objections for this recipe/article or any other. Glad you've found the content here useful; linking the podcast to the article would probably be appropriate. Kellen ^T 13:47, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Answered

PING: Sorry about the delay See_me Stay healthy! FrankB 23:56, 21 April 2020 (UTC)

Reverting edits

Can you stop applying your "lint" change when you've been reverted once already please. I am the main editor of the book Understanding Air Safety in the Jet Age and I prefer to work on it in the style I am using, not with the non-content changes you have made. It is not good practice to repeatedly revert, without a meaningful edit summary, when the changes you are making are cosmetic and not contributing to the content of the book. Thanks - QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 16:58, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

@QuiteUnusual: Apologies. I was working from the reported lint concerns at Special:LintErrors page, I hadn't noticed that you HAD previously reverted (and nothing about the previous revert is visible in my notifications).

ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 17:20, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

The intended 'repair' was to resolve :

''<big>Welcome to the Wikibook on''<br /><br /><big>'''Understanding Air Safety in the Jet Age'''</big></big>''

which I felt should be <big>''Welcome to the Wikibook on''<br /><br /><big>'''Understanding Air Safety in the Jet Age'''</big></big>''

because it is good practice that any formatting has to be nested.

<Big>...</Big> is also nominally deprecated in more recent versions of HTML, and whilst it currently works, it will at some point be removed from HTML, at which point pages using it will not necessarily be presented as intended. A better approach would be define a {{big}} template that can be updated accordingly.

However, as you define 'repairs' like these as cosmetic, I am considering if I actually want to help improve Wikibooks if such contributions are likey to provoke concerns from other contributors. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 17:29, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

@QuiteUnusual: While the change is indeed cosmetic, the intention is good - lint errors are a huge issue that often manifest years later (as I've fixed many of the old Steward requests that had this issue). I personally think that his change was appropriate as a result, despite it looking "trivial and pointless" (the latter of which is not true in my opinion, and the former is true but not a mistake). Leaderboard (discuss • contribs) 17:41, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Okay I withdraw the trivial and pointless comments, sorry. The principle problem for me was the changing of the whitespace which I'd deliberately included during editing as I find it easier to read. I will make the fixes you suggested above manually. Thanks QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:31, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

And to be clear @ShakespeareFan00: I'm not suggesting that the work you are doing is a problem or that you should stop just that you should watch for any feedback from editors. I doubt there will be much. I'm surprised that you didn't get a notification automatically. Thanks for helping out here. QuiteUnusual (discuss • contribs) 09:35, 2 April 2021 (UTC)

@QuiteUnusual: There may have been a notification outage due to planned maintenance. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs)

Editing the Oberon book

Hello ShakespeareFan00,
I appreciate your intention to help in the Oberon book but find some changes have produced more harm than good. For example, please look at the history of the Oberon books page. There compare the displayed page, time stamped 2021-01-01T12:50:34, and your revision, time stamped 2021-04-01T06:24:46‎. Not merely click on "Compare selected revisions" but compare the Web browser views of the pages. Two faults are evident. Indentation following reference Moe97 is spoiled. The list of references following Zel97 has become a flowed text; no longer a list.

Repair of small syntax errors is helpful. Nevertheless, the appearance of the resulting page must be checked carefully. As illustrated by the example above, a correction made "blindly" can seriously damage format. The intended format is available in the archive.org page cited at the top of the Wikibook page.

If you can restore the correct formats while keeping your corrections, good. Otherwise I must do it.
Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 14:45, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

I've reverted my changes to the page you mentioned, because I am not now sure how to do a satisfactory repair. Have you considered that the formatting in the archived page might also be off? ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 16:24, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

I spent many hours to make the appearance match the original now available at archive.org. In most cases we can recognize a format error from the context. A section of flowed text standing out in a list of references for example. Recollection of the page as it was at ETHZ can also help. Certainly you found some syntax errors which I overlooked. Finding and correcting errors is progress. As time becomes available, will sift through your corrections. Will reapply them while preserving the correct format in the browser view. If you find a syntax error and correct it while preserving the displayed format, good. If you find an error and decline to correct it, a report to the corresponding talk page will help; or you can post a note on my talk page; or you can email me directly. Thanks, ... PeterEasthope (discuss • contribs) 19:01, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Please stop deleting endtags

You delete some endtags like ''' or </div> in the book Guitar but you don't think about the possible side effects. I normally appreciate any help, especially since English is not my native language. But I'm used to programming html5, and it still needs endtags. I need too much time, to repair your failed improvement. I would appreciate it if you refrain from providing further help with the book Guitar as long as you are unsure of the impact of your edits. --Mjchael (discuss • contribs) 06:43, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

If you check the revisions, I had already repaired these, the removals were part of a bulk revert due to a specfic contributor who decided to be vocal about my competence. I'm more than happy to take another look.ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 06:46, 5 June 2024 (UTC)

My user page

Hi. Can you please give it a rest with editing my user page. I'm sick of being pinged on other wikis. Thanks. Manticore ^{Talk | Meta} 00:57, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

ShakespeareFan00, was there something unclear about my entirely reasonable request? My user page does not exist for you to artificially inflate your edit count. Manticore ^{Talk | Meta} 10:44, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

I won't comment on this specific situation, but I wouldn't say fixing syntax/lint errors is unreasonable – you need to have pretty solid evidence that SF00 is "artificially inflat[ing] [their] edit count" before making such an accusation. SHB2000 (discuss • contribs) 11:19, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

@Manticore: Fair point. Can you at least consider checking that all the HTML tags on your page balance, which is almost certainly what the edits concerned were trying to do. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 10:47, 7 July 2024 (UTC)

Revert in Ada Programming/All Chapters

Hi ShakespeareFan00, I've seen your revert in https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Ada_Programming%2FAll_Chapters&oldid=prev&diff=4413709 I don't understand the reasoning behind this. If you look the page now, there are two equal images on it. The change was to include the image used for the header of all the book pages in this transclusion of all the chapters. Do you agree to undoing the revert? ManuelGR (discuss • contribs) 11:55, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

@ManuelGR: Already undone, I was trying to 'reinstate' my previous repairs elsewhere and must have reverted to the "wrong version" here by mistake. ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 12:21, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

Perfect, thanks. Best regards. ManuelGR (discuss • contribs) 21:17, 8 June 2024 (UTC)

You don't happen to have a book on FORTH do you? ShakespeareFan00 (discuss • contribs) 21:19, 8 June 2024 (UTC)