User talk:MolecularPilot

Welcome to my talk page. You can leave a comment below - thank you for your time in helping me to be a better Wikipedian. I archive most conversations after they finish but keep some that I am particularly nostalgic of or which I still need to be reminded of (i.e. the NPP backlog drive).

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Thanks for the tip!

I got your welcome message, checked out your page, opened up the citation hunt tool, and the very first source was something I could help with! I just started on Wikipedia, inspired to contribute by noticing a lot of lack in WikiSpeedRuns. I appreciate the tip about citation hunt and would love to know of any other tools you've found! NovusPax (talk) 04:59, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I'm so glad that you found something to do on Wikipedia! Something else I really enjoy is monitoring the recent changes log to help revert vandalism, and, as soon as you become 'autoconfirmed', you can learn how to do so here. Other thing I like to do is to take a look at this list of uncategorized pages and find categories for them, and a final thing I like is to fix grammar on articles in this list and add Wikilinks to articles in this list. You can find more odd little things like these at the Task Centre.

Thanks for helping Wikipedia, and if you ever need anything else, please don't hesitate to ask me here! Molecular Pilot 22:01, 3 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Salmon as food

@MolecularPilot:Hello. I saw you thanked me for my recent edit on Salmon as food. Would like to know any specific reason for this. I am a beginner and would like to know everything that pleases other Wikipedians, so I can understand what is good to do at Wikipedia. One curious question though. As I was finalizing my edit, the page was saying that the infobox had a error regarding Cholesterol. I went to the template source [Template:Infobox nutritional value]. I realized, that cholesterol begins with a small "c" rather than the big "C". I changed that, and apparently the error got fixed. Does it happen with infoboxes - i.e. even capitalization matters? Kindly advise. Thanks. Neotaruntius (talk) 00:34, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi! I thanked you for adding an interesting new section to the article and referencing it really well, it's always great to see editors add new perspectives to the article and back them app with sources.

It can depend on the individual infobox, but generally parameters are case sensitive (and almost always lowercase). Thanks for spotting that mistake with the box & fixing it.

If you have any other questions please feel free to reach out to me!

Have a great day! :) Molecular Pilot 00:49, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @MolecularPilot for the kind comments. I sure will ask a question as and when it arises. It is so nice to see helpful Wikipedians like you around, who encourage beginners so nicely. Thanks very much for appreciation. I feel encouraged. Neotaruntius (talk) 11:34, 23 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

	The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
	For helping a confused editor to earn their unblock. Thanks for your kindness. -- asilvering (talk) 04:07, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you so much for your kindness as well - this is my first ever barnstar and it's very exciting to get one! Have a great day! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 07:34, 25 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Wikipedia:Malformed SPI Cases

Sorry for the initial reversal on this page. No objection to the new, just had an objection to how it was transcluded to Wikipedia:Database reports. My newer edit with adjustment appears to have corrected that issue. When this report is updated again, the bot should ideally update the date between the onlyincludes so that it displays the updated time on the Database reports page as well. Sorry for any confusion, happy new year. Zinnober9 (talk) 15:18, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your help, it's the first time I've worked with a Database report so thank you for explaining how to correctly show the date and time! Happy new year to you too! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 03:54, 2 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Invalid number of status templates in section '03 January 2025'. Needed 1, got 2.
Invalid number of '====Suspected sockpuppets====' in section '03 January 2025'. Needed 1, got 2.
Invalid number of '====<big>Comments by other users</big>====' in section '03 January 2025'. Needed 1, got 2.
Invalid number of '====<big>Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments</big>====' in section '03 January 2025'. Needed 1, got 2.

Is a false positive. Some days routinely have multiple cases filed. Currently seen at Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Truthfindervert. Izno (talk) 21:05, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Separately, I would recommend not checking for <big></big> tags. I have it in mind to remove that at some point. Izno (talk) 21:06, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Izno, thank you very much for this! I didn't realize some days could have multiple cases listed. I am resolving this issue now (as well as removing the big tags from the check). :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 23:31, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done, with regards to both accepting multiple cases on the same day and not requiring <big></big> tags. Thanks again! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 23:38, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Another. [1] is a valid state for the template. I suspect your regex is just looking for the bar and the end of the template, it should probably just look for the end of the template. Izno (talk) 20:32, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you would be correct, because it tries to extract the status (with "" being a valid status), and from what I saw spa-helper.js always left it as {{SPI case status|}}, with the bar intact. I've resolved this now to permit not having a bar, thanks again for your report Izno, I tried to test everything but there's always edge cases you never suspect. Thank you also for your edit to the template, I was trying to figure out how to get it to hide but it always left some big gap that didn't look nice. :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 02:55, 5 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

User:MolecularBot/AfCResubmissions.json

There are some drafts at User:MolecularBot/AfCResubmissions.json that are no longer submitted. Could you please remove the ones that are not currently submitted? I doubt any admin has time to remove processed drafts from this list. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:14, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have written code to remove these. If you want to run it, feel free to email me for the source code. – DreamRimmer (talk) 11:23, 3 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh sorry, I just saw that you already wrote some code! If you'd like, you can Special:EmailUser me so we can compare code if you like, thank you! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 02:09, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I have sent you an email. – DreamRimmer (talk) 03:15, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I just replied lol, almost at the exact time I got this TP message hahaha! Thank you :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 03:17, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done, I've updated the code to remove a submission from the list if it's accepted/declined. Thanks for the suggestion! :) MolecularPilot ^{🧪️✈️} 02:09, 4 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]