User talk:GhostInTheMachine

This user knows that it can be a challenge to keep AGF in mind.

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March 2025

"Use real words rather than jargon, even if fairly common" – then you would have to change the short descriptions of every TV station article. Mvcg66b3r (talk) 19:27, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

Not a problem — maybe take an hour — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 19:28, 16 March 2025 (UTC)

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A barnstar for you!

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Thank you for updating and adding short descriptions to articles on Wikipedia. With your help, the WikiProject's top 3000 list has been cleared for March 2025 already! Your work has made Wikipedia better :-). LR.127 (talk) 02:04, 21 March 2025 (UTC)

Bella Brisel article

Hello GhostInTheMachine. Thanks for your polishing this new article. Just need your pro advise on the best way to keep the resent exhibition catalog in the literature list (#4) and also use it in a few notes in the article. Thanks Yuri Git (talk) 14:11, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:Bella Brisel

I will reply there — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 09:04, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

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American classical guitar music article

Just wanted to reach out and say thank you for the edits and updates on American classical guitar music, really appreciate your hard work and making sure it follows the correct process (which I had missed). Mickyfitz13 (talk) 09:40, 25 March 2025 (UTC)

Template:Infobox badminton event

Hi, I saw your work on the WTT series articles, I assume those were all semi-automatic? I wonder if it is possible to efficiently find pages that use that template but are actually table tennis events, in case more wikidata items were affected in a similar fashion. Sohryu Asuka Langley Not Shikinami (talk) 12:38, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Semi-automatic — as in "done painstakingly by hand with 5 tabs open at once" . A search finds 28 others that misuse the badminton infobox. Category:World Junior Table Tennis Championships (23) has most (20?) of them, so could be a good place to start. Not sure how Wikidata is involved... — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 12:56, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Haha, I thought you had some "magic button" that fixes style issues in one click. For wikidata, see 2012 World Junior Table Tennis Championships for example, the "Local description" (from short description template) is "Table tennis tournament in India", but "Central description" is "badminton tournament", since a bot imported it from enwiki before some rando updated the local enwiki description. Sohryu Asuka Langley Not Shikinami (talk) 13:24, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

"Magic button"? I wish! This is mostly why over here on EN WP we ignore what Wikidata has in the Description — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 13:30, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

I tried a different search and found 151 table tennis articles using the badminton infobox. There are only 15 articles using the {{Infobox_table_tennis_event}} redirect (I only created it on 2 February) so I suspect that the next step is for me to create a real table tennis event infobox. Discussion here is limited to the two of us, so I have posted a comment at the Table tennis WikiProject — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 17:50, 28 March 2025 (UTC)

Thank you so much. A simple "badminton tournament" "table tennis" search on wikidata gives 81 results at the moment, can Shortdesc helper fix them or would that need to be done manually? Sohryu Asuka Langley Not Shikinami (talk) 02:59, 29 March 2025 (UTC)

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Thank you for your help :D

Thanks for your help on List of wars involving the 13 Colonies and the Illinois and Ohio Countries Ghost. I really worked hard on it. And your cleaning up the phraseology and the key makes it look even better. Thanks for the assist. (; Historyguy1138 (talk) 07:54, 3 April 2025 (UTC)

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On reverting 37.111.181.121's edit in page "Subject (grammar)"...

Wow! You beat me to it! I was just about to revert their edit. I even wrote a little thing on the person's talk page. And right when I was finished writing it and I went to go revert it, you had already done it.

Well, since you've recently edited on that page, I'm sure you've seen the edits I've recently done there. What do you think about the changes I made? Languagelover3000 (talk) 16:58, 14 April 2025 (UTC)

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Shortcuts for SD

I reverted your revert on the shortcuts I added, but please consider allowing those to stand. I do not think they are overly disruptive and I found them to be super memorable more than "cute", or at least that is what I was going for. Thanks mate. Iljhgtn (talk) 13:27, 15 April 2025 (UTC)

From Broskalitre

Hello @GhostInTheMachine, can I request that the page you recently edited and the page that I created name "Borova-Sviatohirsk-Lyman-Sloviansk-Siversk line offensivee" be added into the "List of military engagements during the Russian invasion of Ukraine"? If not, can you please tell me the problem and so you can help by editing the page? You are also warmly welcomed to edit the page if you think you can make more improvements to it or add more information. Broskalitre (talk 22:12, 16 April 2025 (UTC)

List of books on history of number systems

Hello @GhostInTheMachine, for the page you recently edited twice, please do not set the short description to "none." The short description defines the scope and intent of the list and should remain. You are otherwise invited to edit the page if you add new entries to the list. Thanks!Hazegrae (talk) 11:15, 17 April 2025 (UTC)

You may find it helpful to read Wikipedia:Short description and especially WP:SDNONE — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 20:24, 18 April 2025 (UTC)

Sail plan

Hi GhostInTheMachine, a sail plan is both a drawing and the arrangement of sails of a given vessel, the latter being the more common usage of the term. Sincerely, HopsonRoad (talk) 22:40, 20 April 2025 (UTC)

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Proposed deletion

Hello. You have proposed to delete the article with the reason "Move to draft to allow further work". Do you want it to be moved to draftspace? You can do that yourself with the move button. That's something else than deletion. Geschichte (talk) 21:56, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

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Help

Hello ghost, I ask for your help, in this article i made Mayor of Denpasar and Vice Mayor of Denpasar The image displayed in the list always disappears when we slide it down. Can you fix it so it doesn't disappear anymore? Thank you Indonesianinfo2 (talk) 14:38, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

I think this is due to viewing the pages via a mobile. The pages look OK on a real computer. Try the "desktop" link at the bottom of the page — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 17:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)

Houghton-le-Side

I'm trying to understand why you reverted my edit to Houghton-le-Side as non-constructive. There are very few countries in the world who use miles, so indicating "a few kilometres" would help the vast majority of people in the world to understand where this is located. Had the article contained a specific number of miles, I would have used the Convert template to define the exact number of kilometres (British spelling since the article is British) but that wasn't specified in the article. Would you please explain why the edit is non-constructive, since it would appeal to many Wikipedia users, and please consider reverting your revert. Thanks. Truthanado (talk) 21:02, 29 April 2025 (UTC)