User talk:Kilvin the Futz-y Enterovirus

Lang Templates for Chinese

Remsense (talk · contribs), I couldn't find a spot on your talk page, but mine is wide open! Could you explain the edits you made on postal romanization so that I can understand and specifically what you meant by needing to use |script-title=? Thanks! Kilvin the Futz-y Enterovirus (talk) 02:01, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Right! So, the reason is that the same language can be written with different scripts, so our Citation Style (aka CS1 etc.) parameter |title= is taken as using the Latin script, as well as |trans-title=, which is to provide an English translation of a title in another language. I recommend keeping that page in your pocket, the CS1 documentation is great—but to summarize, you just have to put the native script in the |script-title= parameter like:

|last=Qiu |first=Xigui |publisher=The Commercial Press |year=2013 |edition=2nd |location=Beijing |language=zh |script-title=zh:文字学概要 |trans-title=Chinese Writing

where the zh: prefix indicates that Chinese characters are being used. Welcome to Wikipedia, by the way, let me know if you have any other questions! Remsense诉 02:14, 15 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Questions for Shushugah

Hello @Shushugah! I don't believe I've asked you anything yet despite the fact you were assigned as my mentor back when I created my account. Honestly, I've ended up with so many questions but most of the time I just dig through MOS and various WP: articles until I get an answer.

Also, I sorta figured you were a busy person, and I didn't want to waste your time. And please let me know if I shouldn't have pinged you on my talk page.

My question at the moment, however, is: On the Municipality of the District of Lunenburg page, how can I fix the table in the Ethnicity section so that there isn't a huge gap until it reaches the table? I would like to try to fix it myself so that I can learn, but I could not figure it out (consulted WP:AUTOWIDEN, WP:ADTABLE).

Secondly, I still am not really sure how my edit summaries should look. I feel that they're important, but I'm worried I'm either saying too much, not specifying the right details, or have strange (non-Wikipedian) syntax. For example, wp:normal editing process says, "Making multiple changes in a single edit, particularly when edits stretch across different sections, should be avoided" but others have said to change as much as possible in just one edit because it clogs up the history / recent changes.

Do you have any general guidance on that matter? Could you take a look at my edit summaries and possibly give me some feedback? (Should I have split up some of my edits? Do I have too many minor edits?) Thank you in advance! — Kilvin the Futz-y Enterovirus (talk) 10:58, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Kilvin the Futz-y Enterovirus this is an advanced question and I am perplexed what best solution is. There are three different floating items, the ethnicity table, demographics table and infobox, with not a lot of text in between. Asking at WP:VPT will yield more helpful advice from others. I would also question how vital and informative the tables are in this case. The data doesn't seem to significantly deviate over the years and could be rewritten in prose form, which would be my non-technical suggestion. Regarding edit summaries, everyone does them differently. I personally like to be more verbose and include wiki links in them, so that people can easily find out what I did, without needing to look at the changes directly (unless they want to). As to how important it is to separate multiple types of changes, I'd say it depends on how controversial they are, and how many other editors are editing that article. On a high traffic article, it's wise to make smaller/single section edits. On a new article you just created? Go wild. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 23:04, 30 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]