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Happy New Year, Anomalocaris!


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'''Anomalocaris''',<br />Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year ↗, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
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Thank you!


Thank you for the formatting help on my user page! I've never really been a coder, so help tackling the beast of wikitext was much appreciated. ✨ΩmegaMantis✨<small>❦blather &#124; ☞spy on me ↗</small> 20:29, 2 January 2026 (UTC)

Spurious



Spurious means false or fake not extra. Perhaps you are thinking of superfluous? Richard-of-Earth (talk) 21:15, 3 January 2026 (UTC)
: Richard-of-Earth: I suppose this is apropos of my frequent use of "spurious" in edit summaries, and yes, I use the word a lot. Wiktionary's second definition as an adjective ↗ is "Extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted." That's how I use it, for example:
:* {{Diff|Amita Dhiri|1329584337|prev|my edit of 22:42, 26 December 2025 (UTC)}} of Amita Dhiri ↗, ("rm spurious comment not marked as a comment"), I removed "Deputy Commissioner Vanita in Ragdoll in 2021, and Mrs Khanna in season 3 of Bridgerton in 2024.", which was fostered content ↗ duplicating nearby table rows.
:* {{Diff|Wikipedia talk:Consensus|1330712869|prev|my edit of 01:31, 2 January 2026}} of Wikipedia talk:Consensus ↗ ("rm spurious newline"), I removed a newline before the closing <code><nowiki>}}</nowiki></code> of {{tlx|difftext}}, which was causing two multiline table in list ↗ lint errors.
:* {{Diff|The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show|1329437899|prev|my edit of 03:40, 26 December 2025}} of The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon Show ↗ ("rm spurious open italics ('<nowiki/>')"), where I removed <code><nowiki>''</nowiki></code> from <code><nowiki>''Eek! The Cat ↗</nowiki></code>.
:* many times recently, "rm spurious apostrophe", where I removed an apostrophe from markup.
:In all of these cases, I removed ''extraneous, stray; not relevant or wanted'' markup. So, thank you for your concern, but you haven't convinced me there's a problem. I notice that you always or nearly always include a summary with your edits, such as "Remove extra line break", which you used 10 times in the last 250 edits. That is fine, and I could have used "extra" as you did, but frankly I would go with "extraneous" rather than "extra", and "spurious" is shorter, so I think I'll stick with that. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 06:30, 4 January 2026 (UTC)
::Interesting. I have not seen this definition. It is not in the 1989 OED ↗ nor the 2008 Longman dictionary ↗, but language grows over time and I guess it has come to mean "unwanted" since it originally meant an illegitimate child. (Which is kinda sad.) Please forgive me if I seemed pedantic. I do appreciate you edits to improve Wikipedia. You work harder at it then I do. Richard-of-Earth (talk) 07:04, 4 January 2026 (UTC)

Nomination of :Liquid Ass ↗ for deletion


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Putting quotes around ref names



In your recent edit of Magnetic monopole ↗ you put quotes around the ref names. What is the reason? It seems to be to just be unnecessary clutter.

Thanks in advance for any explanation. <b style="color: #4400bb;">''Constant314''</b> (talk) 12:33, 29 March 2026 (UTC)
:Constant314: See User talk:Anomalocaris/Archive 2024#Thanks and question. —Anomalocaris (talk) 17:26, 29 March 2026 (UTC)

Thumb in infobox



Can you explain Special:Diff/1347310066/1347321148 ↗? This is a clear violation of MOS:INFOBOXIMAGE ↗. Resisted templating you as you clearly have experience here but this is not a good edit... '''<span style="color:#00d5ff">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>''' (<sup>Talk to me ↗</sup>/<sub><span style="color:orange">What I been doing</span> ↗</sub>) 04:06, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
:This editor was fixing a Linter invalid file options ↗ error and probably did not look closely at the context. The previous edit introduced both errors. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:17, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
::Someday you'll have to teach me wtf linter errors are anyway... {{facepalm}} '''<span style="color:#00d5ff">Zack</span><span style="color:#007F94">mann</span>''' (<sup>Talk to me ↗</sup>/<sub><span style="color:orange">What I been doing</span> ↗</sub>) 04:19, 6 April 2026 (UTC)
:Zackmann08: Yes, as Jonesey95 suspected, I edited Santa Ana, El Salvador ↗ to fix a Bogus file options ↗ lint error, and as you noted, I didn't do it exactly right, but you took it the rest of the way. Usually, when articles or markup is copied from Spanish Wikipedia, the file option {{code|miniatura}} should be {{code|thumb}}, but within infoboxes, image markup generally simplifies, and I neglected to do it. Thank you for taking care of it. For more on lint errors, including how you can help, see Wikipedia:Linter ↗. —Anomalocaris (talk) 07:22, 6 April 2026 (UTC)

Cosmetic edits on talk pages



I've reverted this cosmetic edit ↗ you made to my comment. I don't know why you did it, please resist the urge next time. Thanks, <span style="font-weight:bold;color:#f50">BugGhost</span>&nbsp;🦗👻 19:46, 12 April 2026 (UTC)
:Bugghost: I did not make a cosmetic edit. I fixed errors. Template:tq ↗ redirects to Template:Talk quote inline ↗, and it says in the documentation under Usage ↗:
:: To quote a multi-paragraph excerpt or other block content instead of an inline entry, use {{tlx|talk quote block}} (a.k.a. {{tlx|talkquote}} or the shortcut {{tlx|tq2}}) ...
:As the quoted excerpt is block content, I corrected {{tlx|tq}} to {{tlx|tq2}}, thereby fixing two lint errors, which are listed at <span class="plainlinks">the info page ↗</span>. If you leave it this way, someone is going to fix it, probably the same way I did. Cheers! Anomalocaris (talk) 05:46, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
::We don't do that as a matter of etiquette. However the talk comment was written, that is the way it stays, except in egregious cases like copyvio and personal attack. <b style="color: #4400bb;">''Constant314''</b> (talk) 06:57, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
:::As I predicted, someone, specifically Zinnober9, fixed it, using {{tlx|tqb}}, an alias of {{tlx|tq2}}. Constant314: talk page comments are edited all the time for a lot more reasons than copyvio and personal attack. Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages ↗ encourages "Fixing technical matters of wikitext formatting, tables, templates, broken links, and the like" and "other minor fixes without changing someone's words." Wikipedia:Linter#How you can help ↗ echoes this:
:::* It is OK to edit ↗ other people's User ↗ and User talk pages ↗, and other people's comments on talk pages; but if you do, please see Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines § Editing others' comments ↗ for guidance.
:::Editing other people's comments on talk pages within these guidelines is normal and routine. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 16:50, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
::::thanks for pointing it out <b style="color: #4400bb;">''Constant314''</b> (talk) 17:39, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
:@Bugghost As I stated in my first edit, and Anomalocaris has explicitly stated above, the tq template may not be used in multi-paragraph (block) cases as it is an inline template that becomes stripped when used in multi-paragraph situations, and reports as a HTML5-incompatible misnesting error due to the strippage of that template. {{tl|Talk quote block}} (a.k.a. {{tl|talkquote}}, {{tl|Tqb}}, or {{tl|tq2}}) is for multi-paragraph usage and is intentwise equivalent to {{tl|tq}}, so please use Talk quote block (tqb) rather than tq (inline) for multi-paragraph cases. Thank you. Zinnober9 (talk) 18:32, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
::Seeing as you have altered my comment twice now, this seems to be something some group of editors care deeply about, for reasons that are still completely alien to me. Could someone explain what ''tangible'' benefit this has to anyone at all? The linting error itself ({{tq|Misnested tag with different rendering in HTML5 and HTML4}}) suggests this is for the benefit of people who are using a browser that only supports HTML4, which, in 2026, is approximately zero people. To me this feels like people who have a burning need to reduce some irrelevant number to 0 without worrying whether there's any actual use in doing so. <span style="font-weight:bold;color:#f50">BugGhost</span>&nbsp;🦗👻 18:44, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
:::A much better edit summary, like "Fix Linter ↗ errors" would probably have helped. That said, I have edited the page in a way that preserves the editor's original formatting while fixing the Linter errors. I hope that this change works for everyone involved. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:10, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
::::{{U|Bugghost}}, if you would like to see examples of missing closing tags and other types of Linter errors causing rendering problems, click through some of the links that I have saved from this tag cleanup work. Sometimes, missing tags are caught by your browser (or Wikipedia's rendering engine) and silently provided for the viewer, but it can't be counted on. – Jonesey95 (talk) 19:11, 13 April 2026 (UTC)
:::::Right - am I correct in the assumption that my comment won't be being added to your list, because it caused no actual measurable issue? I'm still lost as to why anyone cares about my comment when the original formatting caused no visible problem. I can understand the need to fix an unclosed <nowiki><small></nowiki> (or whatever), but only because that actually alters the way the page renders.{{pb}}From your message it sounds like linting errors are used an indicator that there is ''potentially'' a real, measurable issue - but their mere existence is not actually a real problem - is that correct? Why is there no way of just suppressing individual lint errors as harmless non-issues and leaving the markup as-is? This is a feature built into most programming-language linters. I feel like this current system encourages meddling with other people's comments to fix imagined problems that affect no-one, which is not the best use of editor hours - it feels like artificial cleanup of hypothetical issues, rather than work that would actually improve the encyclopedia for readers. <span style="font-weight:bold;color:#f50">BugGhost</span>&nbsp;🦗👻 19:50, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
::::::The current parser works around some of the errors, displaying what the editor intends instead of what the editor literally puts in as formatting code. There is no promise that future parsers will continue these workarounds. A new parser is scheduled for late 2026 (more likely 2027, IMO); I expect that it will be less tolerant of Linter errors. That's one of the reasons that we have been cleaning them up since 2018. We have fixed somewhere between 90% and 95% of the errors that existed back then. – Jonesey95 (talk) 20:04, 14 April 2026 (UTC)
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{{U|Bugghost}}: Actually, {{tq|Misnested tag with different rendering in HTML5 and HTML4}} errors are errors that used to display OK, but now in many cases display badly. For example, the markup
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<del>never

mind</del>
</pre>
used to display like this:
:<del>never</del>

:<del>mind</del>
but now displays like this:
:<del>never</del>

:mind
(To avoid creating lint errors on this page, I have simulated the result using lint-free markup that works the same.) Sometimes, Misnested tag with different rendering in HTML5 and HTML4 errors display acceptably, but we do our best to fix these errors regardless. Kudos to Jonesey95 for finding a workaround that preserved the appearance you wanted and also eliminated the errors! —Anomalocaris (talk) 19:54, 13 April 2026 (UTC)

:I've had a bit more of a think about this over the last couple of days, and wanted to apologise for being so standoffish when coming to your talk page to discuss this. Your original edit summary didn't convey the reason for the change, and so I incorrectly assumed you were just messing around with the formatting, not realising it was part of a wider cleanup project. While your edit summary could have been a bit clearer, my talk page message could definitely have been a bit nicer - sorry for assuming the worst rather than just simply inquiring.{{pb}}Wikipedia is a big machine made of lots of small cogs, and it's a good thing there are editors who are looking at all these different pieces of it - even if those areas are ones I personally don't prioritise. When looking at any individual lint fix the change probably looks insignificant, but as a whole I'm sure the cleanup project is a big undertaking. I know my comment wasn't causing any direct rendering issues but leaving it as it was was presumably adding noise to the stats and would make identifying more serious issues more difficult, so now I think I understand the actual purpose of it being changed. I wanted to say thanks to you, @Jonesey95 and @Zinnober9 for giving me more info about linting, and for doing lint cleanup in general. Thanks, <span style="font-weight:bold;color:#f50">BugGhost</span>&nbsp;🦗👻 10:43, 17 April 2026 (UTC)
::Thank you for coming back to write this kind message. – Jonesey95 (talk) 13:01, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

CS1 error on 2025–26 Professional U21 Development League ↗


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Hello,Im Zhangpw.



You said that Wikipedia cannot be used as a reference on Wikipedia in my user saandbox ↗.But I am doing translation.I just followed the same reference of article:Tolkien fandom ↗.So,For accurate translation,how can I do anything to complete this translation? Zhangpw (talk) 08:21, 26 April 2026 (UTC)
:Zhangpw: If you are doing a translation as an exercise, I suppose you could put a note at the top saying something like, "This is a translation of an article found elsewhere, as an exercise in translation. It is not intended to become a Wikipedia article." But, if you are doing the translation with a goal of creating a Wikipedia article, that article will have to abide by WP:CIRCULAR ↗, which says, "Do not use articles from Wikipedia (whether English Wikipedia or Wikipedias in other languages) as sources, since Wikipedia is a user-generated source ↗. Do not use websites mirroring Wikipedia content ↗ or publications relying on material from Wikipedia as sources. Content from a Wikipedia article is not considered reliable unless it is backed up by citing reliable sources ↗." Cheers, Anomalocaris (talk) 18:02, 26 April 2026 (UTC)

Licence release



Are you OK with licensing your contribution ↗ to Wikipedia:True facts about Wikipe-tan ↗ with a CC&hyphen;BY&hyphen;NC&hyphen;SA&hyphen;4&period;0 licence ↗ so it can be transwiki&hyphen;id to BJAODN wiki ↗&quest;
Star walker (talk) 21:08, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
:Star walker: I don't know why you're asking. As far as I know, any edits to Wikipedia belong to Wikipedia. All I did was make a trivial edit. If I said No, would that mean the page couldn't be licensed? Anyway, it's fine, I am OK with it. —Anomalocaris (talk) 22:55, 4 May 2026 (UTC)
::Star walker has spammed this message to several user pages, I answered at User talk:Bruce1ee#Licence release. In short: no. --<span style="color:#a80000; background:#ffeeee; text-decoration:inherit">Red</span>rose64 &#x1f339; (talk) 21:15, 5 May 2026 (UTC)
:::Star walker: I associate myself with the views of Redrose64 at User talk:Bruce1ee#Licence release. —Anomalocaris (talk) 21:45, 5 May 2026 (UTC)

CS1 error on 2026 Georgia Supreme Court election ↗


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Just curious



Thanks for this correction ↗. Now this makes me curious why you would edit such an old archive page. ◅&nbsp;Sebastian Helm&nbsp;🗨 ↗ 00:07, 12 May 2026 (UTC)
:I fix Lint errors ↗ and related errors all over English Wikipedia, including talk pages, without worrying about the age of the content. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 06:16, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

A fox for you!



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Edward Buxton Cristy sez thanks!

G.H.Jarrell (talk) 04:11, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
:{{loop|4|&nbsp;}} For {{Diff|Draft:Edward Buxton Cristy|1354733225|prev|my edit of 00:42, 18 May 2026 (UTC)}} of Draft:Edward Buxton Cristy ↗. —Anomalocaris (talk) 04:36, 19 May 2026 (UTC)
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A request



Hi Anomalocaris,

Thank you for showing an interest in my sandbox https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Newbzy/sandbox/First_Trump_presidency_timeline_(2017_Q1)&diff=prev&oldid=1361980825 ↗, I appreciate it. But, do you think you could make these changes to the article in the mainspace, Timeline of the first Trump presidency (2017 Q1) ↗? That sandbox page is only a draft version for my in-progress edits. I appreciate all help I can get with these US presidency timelines, I've been trying to bring them up to scratch. Newbzy (talk) 07:13, 1 July 2026 (UTC)
:Newbzy: I edited User:Newbzy/sandbox/First Trump presidency timeline (2017 Q1) because it was listed with with Bogus file options ↗ lint errors. The problem was that an image was declared with two captons, and there can be only one caption. My editing habit is that if I edit a page for any reason, I usually fix other things as well. My edit summary was <code><nowiki>Images can have only one caption; {{cite tweet}}; improve <ref>s; replace deprecated archive.today with archive.org</nowiki></code>, and breaking that down, we have
:* <code><nowiki>Images can have only one caption</nowiki></code>: self-explanatory
:* <code><nowiki>{{cite tweet}}</nowiki></code>: This template works better for Twitter/X tweets than <code><nowiki>{{cite web}}</nowiki></code>.
:* <code><nowiki>improve <ref>s</nowiki></code>: mainly fix bollixed author names and change website to publisher.
:* <code><nowiki>replace deprecated archive.today with archive.org</nowiki></code>: per Wikipedia:archive.today guidance ↗.
: The mainspace article Timeline of the first Trump presidency (2017 Q1) ↗ doesn't have any bogus file options, or any lint errors at all, except Duplicate IDs, which we don't care about, so I'm not "driven" to it. To edit the mainspace article, I'd have to start the effort all over, and I don't feel like doing that. If the only success from my edit is that one more editor knows to use <code><nowiki>{{cite tweet}}</nowiki></code>, or to try to replace archive.today links with archive.org links, that's enough for me. Cheers! –Anomalocaris (talk) 07:48, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

::That's alright. I had thought you may have used a (semi) automated process to make the edits, but yeah, my understanding of AWB and others is limited. I'll probably be able to copy over the changes pretty easily anyway, turns out. Thanks for your consideration. Newbzy (talk) 08:13, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!


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Your edit to my user page



Your recent edit added two characters (-}). Something to do with properly closing a table. Those characters now appear in the view readers can see at the bottom of the page. Clearly you made a mistake. I will fix it, but I must caution you: the edit was uncalled for and incorrect as well. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 11:39, 8 July 2026 (UTC) BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 11:39, 8 July 2026 (UTC)
:BuzzWeiser196: You have a 4-row table of userboxes that didn't have table close markup (<code><nowiki>|}</nowiki></code>). I correctly inserted that markup. Further down, you had a spurious <code><nowiki>{{userboxbottom}}</nowiki></code>, which simply emits <code><nowiki>|}</nowiki></code>, thus closing the table in the wrong place. I have now commented out <code><nowiki>{{userboxbottom}}</nowiki></code> and your page is fine. Cheers! —Anomalocaris (talk) 18:14, 8 July 2026 (UTC)