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:(Also, the gap before each row – actrow_o – seems to end up with a border at the sides and a light grey background.) [[User:Mauls|Mauls]] ([[User talk:Mauls|talk]]) 20:44, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

:(Also, the gap before each row – actrow_o – seems to end up with a border at the sides and a light grey background.) [[User:Mauls|Mauls]] ([[User talk:Mauls|talk]]) 20:44, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

::{{ping|Mauls}} I’ll roll back the changes for now. For some reason the classes seem to not be assigning the proper properties. For whatever reason it looked okay on the testcases page, but there is probably more fancy table formatting going on in the {{tl|test case}} template. <span class=”nowrap”>–[[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]] ([[User talk:Ahecht|<b style=”color:#FFF;background:#04A;display:inline-block;padding:1px;vertical-align:middle;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center”>TALK<br />PAGE</b>]])</span> 20:52, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

::{{ping|Mauls}} I’ll roll back the changes for now. For some reason the classes seem to not be assigning the proper properties. For whatever reason it looked okay on the testcases page, but there is probably more fancy table formatting going on in the {{tl|test case}} template. <span class=”nowrap”>–[[User:Ahecht|Ahecht]] ([[User talk:Ahecht|<b style=”color:#FFF;background:#04A;display:inline-block;padding:1px;vertical-align:middle;font:bold 50%/1 sans-serif;text-align:center”>TALK<br />PAGE</b>]])</span> 20:52, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

:::Thanks. It’s weird – it does it on the ‘doc’ page, but not the doc page as shown on the template page itself… [[User:Mauls|Mauls]] ([[User talk:Mauls|talk]]) 21:09, 10 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello Ahecht! I was using pageswap to swap two user scripts and it errored on updating a JavaScript redirect. Would it be possible to add support for this? Here is the swap attempt and the manual fix. Thanks for the script! Daniel Quinlan (talk) 20:04, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Daniel Quinlan The way the code is written it’s not immediately straightforward to do that, but I’ll add it to the to-do list. —Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:43, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Daniel Quinlan (talk) 20:48, 15 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Have no real idea why, but page swap failed me for the first time on Step 3 (or completing all of Step 2 potentially) regarding move of Russo-Ukrainian War (see contribs). It’s been moved en mass left and right before, so I suspect this has something to do with it. Something not fixed from when it was previously moved around potentially, blocking the completion of the script.

Otherwise no connection problem, it just sort of froze midway. Thought best to report here as left me with 26 redirects to create having deleted them completely unnecessarily. If I had to guess, the script considered the additional steps for other subpages as ‘impossible’ so just moved them directly, with the caveat of deleting the incoming redirect. Very odd as I specified leave & fix redirects per configuration, none of which occurred. As you can tell I’m not that technically minded, as have no real idea what went wrong here.

Regards, CNC (talk) 16:52, 17 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@CommunityNotesContributor Strange, moving subpages with the parent page should’ve been handled by Mediawiki itself. It’s possible that Mediawiki timed out and that confused the script, but I would’ve thought there would’ve been an error message displayed. In the future, if you run into this sort of thing, it can help with my debugging if you can capture the debug console output as well. —Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:55, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the heads up, will make sure to capture a copy of that next time. CNC (talk) 14:06, 20 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Ahecht. This message is being sent to remind you of significant upcoming changes regarding logged-out editing.

Starting 4 November, logged-out editors will no longer have their IP address publicly displayed. Instead, they will have a temporary account (TA) associated with their edits. Users with some extended rights like administrators and CheckUsers, as well as users with the temporary account IP viewer (TAIV) user right will still be able to reveal temporary users’ IP addresses and all contributions made by temporary accounts from a specific IP address or range.

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• Publicly linking a TA to another TA is allowed if “reasonably believed to be necessary”. (e.g. ~2025-12345-67 and ~2025-12345-68 are likely the same person, so I am counting their reverts together toward 3RR, but not Hey ~2025-12345-68, you did some good editing as ~2025-12345-67)
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@GoldRomean Thank you! —Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 13:32, 3 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Where is the SPI for the aviation LTA? They’re back at Thai AirAsia, wanting to know where to report them… for now it’s just a rather barebones AIV report. Danners430 _{tweaks made} 14:23, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Danners430 I was extending a block originally issued by Canterbury Tail as the same user moved to new temporary accounts. You’d have to ask them. —Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 14:41, 6 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Can you please take a look at this article, at which your edit appears to have broken the episode table? Probably a faulty find-replace, something that happens to the best of us. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:41, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Jonesey95 All fixed. Silly me for thinking that if the first 7 seasons worked that the rest would work too. —Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 01:39, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, that sort of thing happens. I have always said that editors are infinitely creative in their editing. They will do the same thing five different ways in the same article, and they will make an infinite variety of slightly different errors. That’s why we gnomes are here. – Jonesey95 (talk) 03:03, 8 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I’m not sure why, but your changes to Template:Act-Row to use classes have put the icon link on a separate line below the short title – can you fix that please? Mauls (talk) 20:11, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

(Also, the gap before each row – actrow_o – seems to end up with a border at the sides and a light grey background.) Mauls (talk) 20:44, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Mauls: I’ll roll back the changes for now. For some reason the classes seem to not be assigning the proper properties. For whatever reason it looked okay on the testcases page, but there is probably more fancy table formatting going on in the {{test case}} template. —Ahecht (TALK
PAGE) 20:52, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. It’s weird – it does it on the ‘doc’ page, but not the doc page as shown on the template page itself… Mauls (talk) 21:09, 10 November 2025 (UTC)[reply]