User talk:BrandonXLF

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A few words of advice...

Since you've had a request for Template Editor declined recently, and you're still active on the templates I'm assuming that you still have it in mind to reapply sometime. Can I offer you some advice?

• There's very little that is urgent. A new change, which isn't an urgent bug-fix, can take its time. Discussions usually go on for at least a week.
  • Template talk pages are dull and overlooked places - it helps to solicit more input from the relevant WikiProject talk pages.
  • Wikipedians are volunteers who have obligations in the real world, they don't jump to for each request or {{ping}}. Show some patience, & avoid creating the impression that you're in an unnecesary rush.
• Test your changes. In the proper places. Check your test results. Don't just test the conditions you're sure will work or are run-of-the mill. Don't ask others to check the results before you've checked them yourself.
• Repeatedly re-opening the edit requests before addressing all the issues raised in the previous rejection tries everybody's patience and almost guarantees another rejection.
• If you have a bunch of similar requests, make one. Wait for it to be implemented. Wait a little longer to see if it hits any problems in the real world. Then make the rest of the requests citing the first as an example. There's little that's more off-putting than going to User:AnomieBOT/TPERTable to check the work queue and seeing a bunch of changes with no testing, little by the way of rationale, and no precedent.
• Back in the day, when sitting exams, they used to say "show your working". It helps. Comments which defy any verification like "Everything looks fine, I'm done editing it." sound more like proof by assertion and do not help your case.

Feel free to ignore this if you wish, but don't be surprised if the rejections pile up and count against you the next time you apply for TE.

Hope that helps, Cabayi (talk) 21:45, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

I feel as if I do a few of those things most of the time, but I'll do that for now on, thanks! – BrandonXLF ^(t@lk) 21:47, 23 September 2018 (UTC)

Copying within Wikipedia requires attribution

Thank you for your contributions to Wikipedia. It appears that you copied or moved text from Stichting INGKA Foundation into INGKA Holding. While you are welcome to re-use Wikipedia's content, here or elsewhere, Wikipedia's licensing does require that you provide attribution to the original contributor(s). When copying within Wikipedia, this is supplied at minimum in an edit summary at the page into which you've copied content, disclosing the copying and linking to the copied page, e.g., copied content from [[page name]]; see that page's history for attribution. It is good practice, especially if copying is extensive, to also place a properly formatted {{copied}} template on the talk pages of the source and destination. The attribution has been provided for this situation, but if you have copied material between pages before, even if it was a long time ago, please provide attribution for that duplication. You can read more about the procedure and the reasons at Wikipedia:Copying within Wikipedia. Thank you. If you are the sole author of the prose that was copied, attribution is not required. — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 01:14, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

I did add attribution to the talk page, before you posted this. – BrandonXLF ^(t@lk) 01:15, 24 September 2018 (UTC)

Module:Location map/data

The documentation page for Module:Location map/data is full of errors which seem to be related to your recent edits there, despite the fact that a quick look makes it appear you reverted yourself. Perhaps you did something else which is causing those errors? Please have a look. Johnuniq (talk) 05:33, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

@Johnuniq: I found out the only way to remove them is by removing the module (not the documentation), but I don't know how to tag it. 12:11, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

@JohnBlackburne: There is a strange problem at Module:Location map/data which was recently created and then blanked. For some reason the documentation page is showing tons of errors. I suspect that speedy deleting the page per {{db-author}} would solve the problem if you wouldn't mind. The reason for this request is that there appears to be no way to add db-author to a module page. Johnuniq (talk) 04:04, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Not sure why you pinged me. Yes, the problem is the page at Module:Location map/data should not exist, it serves no purpose and is causing the errors as it causes the documentation page to be generated on a page without geographic data. BrandonXLF, if we are correct there is no use for it can you see to it it’s deleted – as long as you make it clear you are the author and want it deleted an admin should have no problems doing so under the speedy deletion policy.--JohnBlackburne^words_deeds 05:14, 26 September 2018 (UTC)