Pigsonthewing

Citation template changes

Hi Andy, in the Wikispecies roundtable at Wikimania you mentioned some changes that the citation template should get. Have these ever been publicly defined or discussed? I'm interested in taking a look... Azertus (talk) 14:47, 21 August 2023 (UTC)

@Azertus: Yes; see Wikispecies:Requests for Comment/Archive 3#Citation templates. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 13:23, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

A question

Hi Pigsonthewing, Special:Diff/9601478 Are there any benefits to this change? I deleted it because it seemed like it was randomly placed in articles. Wooze (talk) 16:11, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

@Wooze: Your edit was correct. There is discussion of the underlying issue at Wikispecies:Administrators' Noticeboard#Recent barrage of IP edits. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:35, 8 May 2024 (UTC)

Please don't delete Main Page Uzbek version

Hello @Pigsonthewing please don't delete the Uzbek language version, this time it is fully translated:) Mirishkorlik (talk) 07:04, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

Userpage content

Hello, I have a question about a user/userpage I've run across. I know from my multiple years of editing on enwiki, that while there's some general leeway given for users to have off-topic content on their userpage to personalize their space, that there is also a point at which "no webhosting" goes into effect, and I'm wondering if this is the case here.

User:Eajaz, with 18 edits (all Dec 2011, nothing since), has only ever edited their userpage. The 31KB page does not appear to have any focus on animals/species, but appears to be multiple religious based passages (granted I don't know the language personally and was using a translator). Since they haven't edited outside of that one page, it's giving me the impression of noncontributing webhoster.

I was ran across it when addressing some of the remaining Misnested tag errors here on Species and didn't want to invest the time in fixing these syntax issues if the page was running afoul of webhosting, since pages with RtoL languages are harder to fix in a LtoR environment than LtoR languages are. Wondered your take on this. Thanks, Zinnober9 (talk) 16:01, 28 October 2024 (UTC)

@Zinnober9: I've deleted the user page since it contained links to several external pages containing spam, including links to one web page that is hosting malware. The user hasn't made any edits to any of the other Wikimedia projects: Eajaz (talk • contribs • block log • all projects)

–Best regards, Tommy Kronkvist (talk), 17:30, 28 October 2024 (UTC).

Excellent, thank you! Zinnober9 (talk) 19:23, 28 October 2024 (UTC)