Frietjes

Barnstar for you!

		The Template Barnstar
		I've looked at your tireless contribution to templates. So i believe this barnstar should suit you. Ibrahim ebi (talk) 15:59, 18 February 2013 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		Thanks for your help to improve the Adopt-a-typo template. Much appreciated! Jason Quinn (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		For getting better performance and adding options to the chess diagram template. Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:36, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Let me just second this (since you've got three on this page already). Thank you for all those well-framed edit requests you made to the convert sub-templates. ~Adjwilley (talk) 20:05, 2 August 2013 (UTC)

Thank you for editing Sandhani page. Dr. Kabir Hossain (talk) 18:41, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Module:testcase table is great! Thanks for making it! —hike395 (talk) 03:58, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

		The SpongeBob SquarePants Bubble Award
		Hey Frietjes! Thanks for your wonderful and helpful contributions in SpongeBob related areas. I really appreciate it. Keep it up! Thanks and happy editing! :) Mediran (t • c) 03:12, 11 May 2013 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Thank you for being observant to other's (i.e. me) ham-fisted hacking and repairing damaged templates without fuss. You rock! FruitMonkey (talk) 21:11, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	For your work correcting the "year" field in 1000s of uses of {{Infobox Australian place}}. Much appreciated. Mattinbgn (talk) 19:53, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

Wow. That was a quick work here! Happy editing! --    L o g  X   17:34, 11 October 2013 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thanks for you work on tables and templates! -- Wywin (talk | contribs) 18:35, 24 October 2013 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		Thanks for all your work replacing instances of {{convert/spell}} with the new Lua compliant {{convert|...|spell=in}} AdmrBoltz 20:54, 15 January 2014 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		Frietjes, I would like to thank you for taking care and fixing the oil field infobox even without asking. It was really kind of you. Beagel (talk) 17:59, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you! Thanks for all the updating of the population data you are doing on Queensland places! Great work! Kerry (talk) 00:32, 18 February 2014 (UTC)

		The Golden Doubloon of Anatomy
		You have been awarded the prestigious Golden Doubloon for your services to the WP:ANATOMY WikiProject. Thanks!

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you for adding team colors for college basketball players. Temple of the Mousy (talk) 19:53, 14 March 2014 (UTC)

tireless template help Thank you for quality help in all kinds of template questions, even creating a template that should not be needed rather than "some hack of div tags and html tables", finding solutions with sense and offering them with kindness, - you are an awesome Wikipedian! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		Thank you so much for your fix at Template:Infobox winery. You've just fixed something that had been a small annoyance to me and probably others for a long time. SchreiberBike talk 00:46, 3 April 2014 (UTC)

A Cookie for your work behind-the-scene's on various currency articles On a number of occasions now I've noticed you've made a whole series of benificial but tedious improvements to various currency articles. These are mostly the type of improvements that are behind the scene's (formatting, wikifying, etc.) and thus might go unrecognized, so I wanted to take a moment to thank you and let you know it's appreciated. Gecko G (talk) 20:49, 4 April 2014 (UTC)

	Nice work!
	Thanks so much for the work on the Nanjing districts template! Your input on the template itself and placement within articles is extremely helpful! I had posted two questions about how to format it and you resolved both issues! It's very much appreciated and looks really nice now. CaroleHenson (talk) 15:16, 15 May 2014 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Nice work on {{Taxation}}! You do a lot of work in neglected areas, and it's always a big improvement. bobrayner (talk) 12:46, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for patrolling unused templates and nominating them for deletion. The cleanup is very useful. Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:17, 7 November 2014 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thanks for the article changes :) Viktor O. Ledenyov (talk) 14:07, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

		The College football Barnstar
		Frietjes, thank you for your excellent work streamlining the color coding used in navboxes for college football and other college sports subjects. Jweiss11 (talk) 06:26, 20 January 2015 (UTC)

	The Working Woman's Barnstar
	For your unceasing work on the many WP Templates, I hereby award you this Barnstar YSSYguy (talk) 23:25, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

		The Random Acts of Kindness Barnstar
		A big thanks for your help with putting in grid-numbers in info-boxes: it works like dream! With best wishes, Huldra (talk) 22:02, 2 March 2015 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For your endeavor in template cleanup, where I sometimes feel overwhelmed, and wish I were more like you. -- [[User:Edokter]] {{talk}} 19:55, 3 March 2015 (UTC)

Philippine barnstar

"My own work" (the pic not the star!) --Unbuttered parsnip (talk) mytime= Sun 07:11, wikitime= 23:11, 14 March 2015 (UTC)

tireless template help
Thank you for quality help in all kinds of template questions, even creating a template that should not be needed rather than "some hack of div tags and html tables", finding solutions with sense and offering them with kindness, - you are an awesome Wikipedian!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 17:01, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for correcting my sourcing mistake on Defense of the Reich. Much appreciated. GeneralizationsAreBad (talk) 19:58, 17 June 2015 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	for the amazing work you do everyday and the help you provide to the CHECKWIKI project. Magioladitis (talk) 11:41, 19 June 2015 (UTC)

A kitten for you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you for fixing this! —  dainomite   15:11, 15 July 2015 (UTC)

And thats a high five to you😃
Thanks for all you good contribution. It was greatly appreciated👋 Brilloman12 (talk) 05:51, 1 August 2015 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	For you hard work at cleaning up templates. Just checked my watch list and it BLEW UP with all the changes you made. Keep up the awesome work! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:05, 20 October 2015 (UTC)

hi, thank u for editing in my page user :) SURDUSVII 17:51, 6 November 2015 (UTC)

For helping me today! Magioladitis (talk) 16:06, 13 November 2015 (UTC)

	The Teamwork Barnstar
	Thanks for monitoring the talk page for Module:College color/data and adding the support for references proactively. —Bagumba (talk) 02:46, 24 November 2015 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	For improving ISBN checks! Magioladitis (talk) 18:58, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

Cookies makes me happy. I hope hey make you too :) Magioladitis (talk) 22:43, 26 January 2016 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		Thanks a lot for merging {{Infobox Jain temple}} with {{Infobox religious building}}. You deserve this. -- Pankaj Jain Capankajsmilyo (talk · contribs · count) 19:02, 23 February 2016 (UTC)

The Cure Award

In 2015 you were one of the top 300 medical editors across any language of Wikipedia. Thank you from Wiki Project Med Foundation for helping bring free, complete, accurate, up-to-date health information to the public. We really appreciate you and the vital work you do! Wiki Project Med Foundation is a user group whose mission is to improve our health content. Consider joining here, there are no associated costs, and we would love to collaborate further.

		The Tolkien Barnstar
		You have been awarded a barnstar by WikiProject Middle-earth for your tireless effort of cleaning up template shortcuts. De728631 (talk) 19:16, 5 March 2016 (UTC)

My wikilove again and again!! Magioladitis (talk) 19:31, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Three years ago ...

tireless template help
... you were recipient no. 441 of Precious, a prize of QAI!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:01, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for your contribution to the draft of the National Science Museum at Maynooth AugusteBlanqui (talk) 19:55, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thanks for all of your help at Module:College color... you ROCK! It would be no where where it is today without you!!! 🎓 Corkythehornetfan 🎓 23:09, 11 May 2016 (UTC)

Trying to make up for being nasty. Was having a bad day and you, unfairly, paid the price. Maragm (talk) 13:51, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		This Barnstar of Diligence is awarded to Frietjes for persistence and diligence in emptying Category:Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls, which contained tens of thousands of pages with errors, over the last two years. Thanks, from one gnome to another. – Jonesey95 (talk) 00:16, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Thank you, template guru! bd2412 T 21:10, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

The Scouting Barnstar -For solving the uniform riddle we've had for 6 years, putting your mad tech skills available to the Wiki community, fast and cheerfully! --Kintetsubuffalo (talk) 02:54, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	For your continued assistance with modules and templates. Thank you for being such a joy to work with and for being so responsive to requests for assistance. Keep up the awesome work. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 20:30, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

The Technical Barnstar

For your continued work on templates, particularly your dedication to templates that are insanely complicated, such as Template:Infobox country. Everyone wanted that template converted to use {{Infobox}}, but no one (including myself) wanted to put in the time and effort to make it happen. Way to step up and get it done! Keep up the amazing work. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:35, 22 December 2016 (UTC)

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		Thank you User:Frietjes for those amazing improvements you made to Holocaust infoboxes: concentration camp and Holocaust event. This is what I call, putting advanced knowledge of formatting into the best possible use for the benefit of our project. All best, and thank you again, Poeticbent talk 16:02, 7 March 2017 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	For eliminating mainspace articles in Category:Pages using infobox map with x or y by creating location maps, I award you this barnstar! Thanks so much! —hike395 (talk) 05:02, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Precious

Four years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:38, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		for your outstanding work in developing a technical template to convert coordinates from German to English Wiki format; something which has caused problems for years and will now save thousands of nugatory editor hours. Well done and thank you! Bermicourt (talk) 17:35, 6 June 2017 (UTC)

		The Original Barnstar
		For your wonderful work! Huldra (talk) 21:47, 1 September 2017 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	For your incredible work on Module:Sidebar games events. Not just the fact that you got that done, but you are such a pleasure to work with. You have a wonderful attitude, are eager to work with others and help a n00b like myself. You are truly a stellar wikipedian. THANK YOU! Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 17:29, 8 September 2017 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	thanks for being so helpful —TheDJ (talk • contribs) 21:40, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

	The Original Barnstar
	Thank you for your valuable contributions! You are a valuable contributor on Wikipedia! Pkbwcgs (talk) 18:26, 5 February 2018 (UTC)

The Original Barnstar

Hi Frietjes I Respect Your opinion, I try To merge these pages to the main Volleyball box page but It seems technically hard for me, I tell the creator of volleyball box page to add these categories, He didin't Reply at all So I have created these pages I think its a useful solution. so please I hope to keep these pages, cause when you delete it all. It will deform the panorama in other linked pages. thanks Elly mino (talk) 22:05, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

	The Brilliant Idea Barnstar
	Well Thank You for your Last contributions, Great Work Elly mino (talk) 13:51, 24 February 2018 (UTC)

		WikiProject Japan Barnsensu Award
		Thank you for your help in creating Module:Location map/data/Japan complete. It will prove useful in a number of articles. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 20:32, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Great work on several templates, especially sports-related ones like Template:Sports_rivalry_series_table. It's made them more compact and easier to use. Keep up the good work! WuTang94 (talk) 21:34, 11 August 2018 (UTC)

A goat for you! Just a reminder that you are awesome. Left a message on your page asking for some help, and MINUTES later, you were all over it. People like you are what make Wikipedia awesome. Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:22, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

Qwerty number1 has given you a puppy!

thanks for.creating this wonderful template!!!

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Precious

Six years!

	The Special Barnstar
	Many many thanks for note translation on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ggerly/sandbox Ggerly (talk) 16:17, 14 October 2019 (UTC)

		Editor of the Week
		Your ongoing efforts to improve the encyclopedia have not gone unnoticed: You have been selected as Editor of the Week in recognition of your diligent editing. Thank you for the great contributions! (courtesy of the Wikipedia Editor Retention Project)

Frietjes

Editor of the Week for the week beginning March 8, 2020

Persistent and dedicated work implementing and replacing tens of thousands of uses with Module:Sports table without much recognition. One of the top edit counts of all time with an amazing 750000 edits.

Recognized for

behind the scenes effort

Notable work

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Precious

Seven years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:52, 31 March 2020 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		To Frietjes for transforming the WNBA rosters. Beautifully done. Thank you! -SusanLesch (talk) 02:53, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

		The da Vinci Barnstar
		For awesome help with templates always willingly given. Schwede66 19:11, 20 June 2020 (UTC)

The Technical Barnstar

Just wanted to say a massive thanks for your work on the Election results template. Not only is it a big help for getting some consistency in presentation, but the automatic totalling and percentage calculation has helped identify several errors in the tables (both from editors mistranscribing numbers from sources, and mistakes in the sources themselves) by comparing the automatically-calculated totals/percentages with those given in the original tables/sources. This will be a big help in maintaining accuracy! Number 57 22:32, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Precious anniversary Precious Eight years! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:41, 31 March 2021 (UTC)

		Merit Badge Sash Award
		Thank you for your dedication to Scouting! --evrik (talk) 20:24, 26 April 2021 (UTC)

thank you for the help!! I am new to this whole process :) Heather Brittany Xaricam 17:51, 21 July 2021 (UTC)

	The Barnstar of Diligence
	Forgot to give you one of these for having done some large unseen work to remove NavFrame. :^) Izno (talk) 17:36, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

Precious Nine years! --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:56, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	For your script findargdups. Truly a wonderful tool. Happy Editing--IAmChaos 03:11, 26 May 2022 (UTC)

		The Template Barnstar
		Your tireless contribution to templates, and template syntax's has been noticed. So I believe this barnstar should be awarded to you.  The Emperor of Byzantium  (talk) 15:12, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Frietjes,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
Abishe (talk) 18:16, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

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Abishe (talk) 18:16, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy New Year!

Frietjes,
Have a prosperous, productive and enjoyable New Year, and thanks for your contributions to Wikipedia.
— Moops ^⋠T⋡ 19:59, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

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— Moops ^⋠T⋡ 19:59, 1 January 2023 (UTC)

Been away for a few years due to health issues. Just dropped in for a bit to do some editing and wanted to say howdy! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:59, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

		The Barnstar of Diligence
		Amazing work in fixing all the broken #section-h transclusions! Thanks a million!

Always precious

Ten years ago, you were found precious. That's what you are, always. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:42, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

Thanks for changing volleyball templates to Module:Sports table/Volleyball in every Volleyball competitions related articles. ♒️ 98TIGERIUS 🐯 17:04, 21 April 2023 (UTC)

Hello there, thanks for all of your contributions to Wikipedia! Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and here's to a happy and productive 2024! ♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:21, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

The Tireless Contributor Barnstar Congratulations on your millionth edit. ϢereSpielChequers 00:59, 7 December 2024 (UTC) Frietjes, you are tireless and valued. Thanks for your quiet and consistent work. – Jonesey95 (talk) 04:57, 9 December 2024 (UTC) I just noticed this achievement and wanted to issue my congratulations, too. Thanks a helluva lot of edits and years worth of contributions to the project. Thank you! Liz Read! Talk! 19:57, 21 December 2024 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	Congratulations on one million edits! Seven digits worth of edits speak for themselves. Best wishes! Red Director (talk) 22:34, 14 December 2024 (UTC)

	The Tireless Contributor Barnstar
	There isn't a barnstar for most article page moves in 24 hour period so this will have to do! Liz Read! Talk! 01:50, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

	The Special Barnstar
	Thank you for helping out with the article I was writing, I appreciate it! Have a nice day! I am a new user, someday I'll write an article (talk) 20:38, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

	The Editor's Barnstar
	MY GOD! thank you man for helping me there! i figured out easy solution later but man... im starting to love english wikipedia and its community... thank you man!!!!!!!!!!! ----modern_primat ඞඞඞ TALK 22:35, 12 February 2025 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	Just a little thank you for your AMAZING scripts. I’m talking about user:Frietjes/findargdups mainly. Hope you are well! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 00:13, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

thank you for your contributions!! :D xRozuRozu (t • c) 21:03, 20 September 2024 (UTC)

	The Technical Barnstar
	For your tireless work on Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2025_August_25#Culture_sidebars_part_3 :) —Matrix ping mewhen u reply (t? - c) 17:09, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

help

Can you help me merge {{8TeamBracket-AFC}} and {{8TeamBracket-AFC-2Leg}} into Module:Team bracket? Thanks,Hhkohh (talk) 16:24, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Hhkohh, so you need |RD1-2= for a round label in the middle? possible, but will take some time to implement (on top of the current group label). Frietjes (talk) 17:34, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

yeah Hhkohh (talk) 22:33, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

Module:Historical populations

Hi Frietjes, some years ago you added graphs to the {{Historical populations}} template, now a module. Since the Graph extension has been retired, that should be replaced with the Chart extension. Do you know how to do that, and would you have time to? Many thanks in advance! Markussep ^Talk 10:33, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Markussep, it looks like this is going to be challenging. as far as I can tell, to use the chart extensions you need to have a separate data page (for example, see Gmina Nadarzyn). you can't just feed the data into the extension and render the chart the way that the graph extension works. unless I am missing some hidden feature, we have a couple choices. (1) use say Module:Chart or another bar-chart module which doesn't use the chart extension, but I don't know if that has rendering problems, (2) create commons population data pages for rendering these graphs, and hopefully there is an easy way to parse that data in Module:Historical populations for the text version as well. I would say that option 1 is going to be the simple option, but option 2 seems to be more in the spirit of where the project is going, since the data can be shared between different language WP projects. please feel free to ask around to see if there are any other options, but this is my current perception of what is going on. Frietjes (talk) 15:37, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Hi Frietjes, I don't think anyone is going to create data pages for all instances where the Historical populations template is used. Maybe Module:Chart would work, I hope it can be made to look nicer than in the examples. I do not know of any other option... Markussep ^Talk 15:59, 28 May 2025 (UTC)

Markussep, coming back to this thread, it is possible to create on demand bar plots, see User:Frietjes/timeline for example. it looks like <timeline>...</timeline> does support LineData but I haven't figured out if it's easy to change to bars to lines (requires pixel coordinates instead of year/pop coordinates). maybe there are other options? Frietjes (talk) 21:47, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Frietjes, I think a bar chart would be good enough, it's a lot better than what we have now (nothing). I saw the LineData option, nice, but that probably requires a lot of calculation / difficult programming. Do you think you could make something similar to what they did at French Wikipedia (fr:Modèle:Histogramme population manuel, see e.g. fr:Ury)? Markussep ^Talk 07:32, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Markussep, I made some changes (see what the chart looks like at User:Frietjes/timeline). I tried to automatically compute the year label spacing and the ScaleMajor and ScaleMinor lines, but there may be some improvement there. Frietjes (talk) 14:52, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

That's already pretty nice! I like the narrow bars. Could you make the bars the same colour as the standard {{Historical populations}} header? And maybe the chart a bit narrower, say 600px. Markussep ^Talk 15:00, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

Markussep, I started integrating it into "historical populations". you can see what I have so far in the testcases. Frietjes (talk) 14:44, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

I’m happy with this, thanks a lot! Does it work the same as it did with the old Graph extension, with the graph_pos parameter? Markussep ^Talk 19:55, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Markussep, yes, if we enable this in the live version, any pages using the old graph-pos parameter will start showing the graphs again. Frietjes (talk) 19:57, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Markussep, it's now live. let me know if you see any problems! Frietjes (talk) 20:07, 17 April 2026 (UTC)

Hi Frietjes, I've checked a few articles using the graph, and there are some small things I hope you can improve. At Évry-Courcouronnes, I specified "graph-pos = right", but the graph shows up under the infobox instead of next to the table. At Nice, I think the bars would be nicer (no pun intended) if they were narrower. Markussep ^Talk 14:49, 18 April 2026 (UTC)

Markussep, I removed the "clear" for the floating image, but it is also possible to have the graph more "attached" to the side of the table (not sure which is better). I also changed the logic for the bar width to be based on the total number of years, so that should give a more uniform spacing for each year. if there are more years, then the bars will be more narrow. hopefully this is the desired result. if not, we can come up with something else. Frietjes (talk) 14:32, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Yes, that's better, thanks! I think it would be nice to have the graph attached to the right of the table in case it's a one column table. Does that mean it gets the same height as well? Markussep ^Talk 14:54, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Markussep, okay, I have attached the graph to the side of the table. it would be hard to try to make them the same height since one use text dimensions and the other uses pixel dimensions. one can override the default graph height. Frietjes (talk) 21:59, 20 April 2026 (UTC)

Thanks again! I think it’s better like this than with equal heights, that would stretch the graph too much. Markussep ^Talk 05:29, 21 April 2026 (UTC)

A proposal to make the graphs even nicer: would it be possible to tweak the y-axis a bit, for instance now if the maximum population is 1100, the top of the axis is 2000, could you make that 1500 (see e.g. Passa, Pyrénées-Orientales)? Markussep ^Talk 12:19, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Markussep, sure, I set it to be based on the smallest bounding minor tick mark, instead of smallest bounding major tick mark. Frietjes (talk) 14:32, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Perfect! Markussep ^Talk 15:16, 12 May 2026 (UTC)

Markussep, I implemented loading data from commons. see Frisange#Population for example. let me know if you see any problems. Frietjes (talk) 18:21, 29 May 2026 (UTC)

Script idea

So as you know I love your scripts... Had an idea for another that you might be able to do. It is a variant of User:Frietjes/indent.js. My thinking is to get a script that will do the same thing for Infobox templates. Unifying the indentation of the |data#= and |label#= values... Not sure if you have any interest, but I sure as hell would use it! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:42, 22 February 2026 (UTC)

@Zackmann08: what would it look like after indentation? Frietjes (talk) 16:10, 23 February 2026 (UTC)

So I guess this is the sort of thing I had in mind... Of course it gets much more complicated with the many other infobox parameters... but that is the basic idea that I had in mind. Anything that unifies the indentation to be more readable I'm in favor of. Right vs left justified, I could go either way... Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:12, 24 February 2026 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Destubathon of the Americas

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Speedy deletion of Thai Commercial

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Please do not recreate the material without addressing these concerns, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If you think this page should not have been deleted for this reason, you may contact the deleting administrator, or if you have already done so, you may open a discussion at Wikipedia:Deletion review. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 20:50, 8 May 2026 (UTC)

Dash

Please stop replacing the dash in the Twin towns section title. Has there been any discussion about this? FromCzech (talk) 17:33, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

"Twin towns" and "sister cities" are synonyms, not two different things. This section name format is used consistently in many states, so I see no reason for such a change. FromCzech (talk) 17:36, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

FromCzech, just going by the current convention here: Special:PrefixIndex/List of twin towns and sister cities. Frietjes (talk) 17:58, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

For the section names, "dash" is much more common than "and", so I would call that more of a convention. FromCzech (talk) 18:04, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

FromCzech, thousands for both, but certainly simple dash is not the convention. Frietjes (talk) 18:15, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Yes, I meant en dash, not hyphen. Em dash is also incorrectly used in several hundreds cases, which is the wrong format, but we must not forget to add them to the en dash. FromCzech (talk) 18:37, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Indent.js help?

Howdy! I keep running into this bizarre situation that is being triggered by running Indent.js and is causing a mess of CS1 errors. For a real-world example Special:Diff/1348209281/1355270785. Any idea how to fix this inside of Indent.js? Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 22:36, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

User:Zackmann08, try this. which was intended to change

{{Infobox foo
| name =       Something
| occupation = Something else
| hometown=    Somewhere
}}

to

{{Infobox foo
| name       = Something
| occupation = Something else
| hometown   = Somewhere
}}

but was not checking to see if there was a pipe before the equal sign. this fix may or may not work as intended. Frietjes (talk) 22:54, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Well fixes the issue I was having, here's hoping it doesn't cause other things... Will report back if I find other issues. You're the best! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:01, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Another weird one... For some reason Indent.js isn't working on this bit of code. Would have expected this to happen. This is a simplified example of an error I have seen elsewhere. The regexes you have written are so far beyond my understanding that I'm not sure where the issue may be. If you have any thoughts? Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 02:10, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

User:Zackmann08, yes, I have seen this before. It is suppose to try to follow the majority indentation convention, but the un-indent part doesn't always work. I will see if I can figure out why. Frietjes (talk) 14:46, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

User:Zackmann08, this probably fixes it. Frietjes (talk) 14:54, 27 May 2026 (UTC)

LDS Module

At this TFD you proposed the idea of making an LDS Module similar to Module:Solar eclipse. Is this a project you are interested in taking on in anyway? If so, is there any way that I can help? Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:06, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

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Nomination for merger of Template:Infobox rune

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Bug? Maybe?

So I forked your amazing find dup args script so I can use it from within JWB... In so doing I think I found a bug in your code. If you look at User:Frietjes/findargdups.js#L-140 I think you have an infinite loop. Unless I am missing something, you are never incrementing the value of j so it will always below 50. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:15, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Zackmann08, you are correct that either (a) there shouldn't be a check to see if "j < 50" or (b) we should be incrementing j inside the loop. I guess the best thing to do would be to (a) bump up the number to say 100 and (b) issue an alert if you ever hit the limit before breaking out of the loop so that one of us can look at that article to see why a single citation has over 100 = signs that need to be pre-processed. having a limit at all is really just a performance thing to make sure it's not spending a really long time in the pre-process stage. Frietjes (talk) 23:22, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

It took me a while to track down but I realize that the way your code is implemented is different than mine. If yours, the only action waiting on that to finish is the alert. For mine, the entire browser freezes waiting on that loop to finish. Can you help me understand the point of line 141 to begin with? Why the need to preprocess these? Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:25, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Zackmann08, it's been a long time since I wrote that line, but it looks like I am probably trying to guard against something like

{{some template | <ref>dogs = yes </ref> | <ref>dogs = no</ref>}}

which isn't a duplicate argument, but my script probably thought it was. to really know the exact situation that caused me to put this in, I would need to go back in the history for the script and find my edits around the time that I added that logic. Frietjes (talk) 23:34, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Zackmann08, I found the edit here where I said it was for wikitables inside of <ref>...</ref>. not sure why that was a problem. Frietjes (talk) 23:38, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

You mean you don't remember your logic from... *checks edit history* ... eleven years ago?? Sounds like an edge case that I don't need to worry too much about! However, I would still fix the infinite loop. I think it might be related to an issue where the text doesn't always get highlighted... Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 23:40, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Zackmann08, sure, breaking after 50 seems fine. although it's not infinite unless there are an infinite number of = on the page. Frietjes (talk) 23:45, 8 June 2026 (UTC)

Hm.... No idea why it was landing me in an infinite loop in my implementation... Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 01:34, 9 June 2026 (UTC)

Lua Help

Hello again... Wanted to see if I could pick your brain on some Lua assistance. Module:Check for deprecated parameters is based off of your Module:Check for unknown parameters. What Deprecated parameters is lacking right now is the ability to supply regular expressions. It is a bit more complicate than unknown parameters because it needs to supply both the find and the replace value. I.E. looking at the current code on {{Infobox royal}} we need to replace all instances of |reign-type(%d)= with |reign_type$1=. I've kicked around trying to write this in my head, but you're far better at this stuff than I... Any interest in giving this a go? Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 16:13, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Zackmann08, lots of debugging, but this change seems to work, tested here. the syntax is to separate to pattern from the replacement with an '='. a couple things to remember about LUA expressions that I had forgotten: (1) use %1 not $1 for the replacement value, (2) use % to escape not \. feel free to move this to the live module if you think it's what you want. Frietjes (talk) 18:27, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

As per usual, you rock. Will play around with it right now. Thanks for taking the time to give this a go! Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 18:33, 11 June 2026 (UTC)

Yet another request...

I feel like I'm constantly bugging you but have another request. Trying to write a helper module for my JWB script and I need a Javascript regex. Basically trying to isolate just Infobox code. so everything from {{Infobox foo... to the closing }}. The tricky part that I cannot figure out is how to not have it crap out the first time it hits a set of }} because, of course, an Infobox can contain multiple template calls. So how can I look for the entirety of {{Infobox foo|....}} but not match anything outside of said Infobox. I feel like you've probably tackled this with your Indent.js. As always, your help is appreciated. Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 06:09, 13 June 2026 (UTC)

Zackmann08 with indent.js what I did was (1) unnest templates and comments by splitting apart the text into small chunks, (2) process each chunk, and (3) reassemble the page. the logic for that starts near line 161. first, on line 175 I push all comments into the tlist array, replacing the comments with ♦§1§♦, ♦§2§♦, ... where the number corresponds to the location comment string in the tlist array. second, I do the same for templates starting at line 192. once this is all done, I then pass each piece in tlist to the wpIndent. finally, I reassemble the article starting at line 213. I found this to be the most robust way to do it because of the complexity of things like comments and extremely nested templates. I suppose I should also be doing the same splitting for things like <pre>...</pre>, <nowiki>...</nowiki>, <syntaxhighlight>...</syntaxhighlight>, but I haven't seen the need yet for the indent script. at one point, someone mentioned that I might be able to access the raw parse tree used by the backend, which would eliminate the need for me to do the splitting, but I haven't looked into that. I don't know what other scripts do. Frietjes (talk) 14:58, 15 June 2026 (UTC)

thanks for the fix

did not noticed about Eliskuya2 (talk) 04:03, 18 June 2026 (UTC)