User talk:GhostInTheMachine/2022

Arthur Richard Dillon

Dear GhostInTheMachine. Thank you for your attention to the page Arthur Richard Dillon. I see you have about double the edit count that I have and lots of experience. However, one of your changes is not a good one. You "corrected" the date format in a footquote: |ps=: "James, Kt. of Malta, Col. of the Dillon Regt. fell at its head at Fontenoy, 30 April, 1745." -> "|ps=: "James, Kt. of Malta, Col. of the Dillon Regt. fell at its head at Fontenoy, 30 April 1745." Many source text use date formats that do not comply with MOS. As I understand it they should be left alone, just as we do not silently correct old-fashioned spelling. What do you think? I seems date fixing in quotes has been reported as a bug in AutoWikiBrowser years ago and will probably never be fixed. With thanks and best regards, Johannes Schade (talk) 21:31, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:Arthur Richard Dillon

 – — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 22:46, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

FreedomBus1969 - Corris Uchaf

The above user seems impervious to requests to either provide references or to use the Talk page to discuss his issues, and continually reverts postings. While in general I don't like banning users, in his case there seems no alternative. Are you able to take the necessary action ? RGCorris (talk) 10:32, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

RGCorris I have no suitable magic powers, but I have outsourced the issue to those who do — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 11:41, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

USL removal

Mind my asking the reason? I thought the documentation page and the listing on User:GhostInTheMachine/Scripts were an indication that the script was ready for being imported. Nardog (talk) 23:49, 10 January 2022 (UTC)

Too soon. As with all software, I will live with it for a while, check with other skins and contemplate any improvements before declaring it "ready" — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 12:30, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

The row on /Scripts looks like a declaration of it being ready to me. Nardog (talk) 18:18, 11 January 2022 (UTC)

User:GhostInTheMachine/SDlinkBuilder

Hi! I forked this script at User:Qwerfjkl/scripts/getLinks, but it's annoying to copy on mobile, so I added some code to add a copy button. [1] I just thought I'd notify you in case you wanted to add this to your own script. In any case, happy editing! ― Qwerfjkltalk 22:42, 22 January 2022 (UTC)

TalkHelper

Thank you for the very useful script! Unfortunately, whenever I'm reading on mobile, it pops up a warning that I don't have commentsInLocalTime enabled every time I load a new page. Is it possible to disable that somehow? Rusalkii (talk) 17:23, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

@Rusalkii: The TalkHelper script needs the commentsInLocalTime gadget to be enabled as well. See TalkHelper #Use and #Prerequisites for how to do that (and why) — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 19:09, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Right, and I have it enabled on desktop, but either it's impossible to enable on the mobile version of the site or I'm missing something. Rusalkii (talk) 19:12, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Ah. I never use the mobile version - even on a tablet. I will see if I can replicate that — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 19:23, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Tban

I don't want to do this myself, and I'm asking you to strike your vote. That isn't even an RfC to begin with and most importantly, you're tbanned from the article. This is the 3rd time I'm reminding you of your tban. Please don't test my patience. ZaniGiovanni (talk) 17:30, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

GhostInTheMachine, disregard that, you're fine. There is no WP:TBAN, only a p-block. El_C 18:32, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

I was aware that there was no Topic ban, but thanks for confirming. However, the p-block is itself blocking my library access.

This user's unblock request has been reviewed by an administrator, who accepted the request.

GhostInTheMachine (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))

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Request reason:

I have no intention of ever editing the Turkish_War_of_Independence article — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 19:01, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

Accept reason:

Okie dokie. El_C 19:08, 1 February 2022 (UTC)

notice

Template:Introductory pages has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. --Sm8900 (talk) 21:55, 3 February 2022 (UTC)

Short description

I noticed your edit on Nehru. As you seem to be a programmer, I might as well ask the questions I've waited for years. What is the use of short descriptions? Are they somehow involved in Google rankings; if so how? Why is it recommended that they be short (< 40 char)? Thanks! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 00:24, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

@Fowler&fowler I am not GhostInTheMachine, just stopping by, but the short (no pun intended) version is that they are used on mobile and some other views as brief blurbs. For example, here the text under the article names are the short descriptions.

The long version is at Wikipedia:Short description. Rusalkii (talk) 00:54, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Oh, I see. They are very helpful then, as is your explanation. Your screenshot also explains why long descriptions don't help. Thank you! Fowler&fowler«Talk» 01:21, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for being objective and unbiased.

There is heavy lobby workings in Wikipedia both from funded by Iranian goverment itself and Armenian lobbies to manipulate history. And you tbanned short after you tried to implement real Wikipedia rules, but it was against their manipulative policy. I hope you could contiune to your wikipedia works without paid lobbies. Have a good day! 78.190.4.26 (talk) 18:05, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Guitar amplifier

Wasn’t that edit you reverted the same one I made? Ffffrr (talk) 17:59, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

The edit I reverted was the one you made. I then re-imported the Wikidata version and made it suitable by making it shorter. You imported it, then left it too long but instead changed the first letter to lower case, which is incorrect for a Short description — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:10, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Ok thanks for making it briefer than before I guess. Ffffrr (talk) 18:14, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Part of the challenge (and indeed the fun) of creating Short descriptions is to devise a short phrase that says enough to serve as a decent Short description, but also does not include extra detail and so creep too far over the 40 character limit — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:26, 3 March 2022 (UTC)

Hello and thanks

I just thought I should say Hello (in a non-canvassing and calorie-free way) to thank you for commenting on that infobox thing. I do realize that it might be a dead-horse/stick job etc but I thought it was at least worth a try.

Because you popped up to comment I looked at your userpage and was tickled by the geography and a few familiar items of tech. I am exiled in the far far distant South but I used to live (in what I think was then the same county? Ah maybe not quite ... it says York wasn't in a Riding??) about 63 km almost due N of you and I still have strong associations with even further North.

Anyway, enough waffle and thanks again. Best wishes, DBaK (talk) 18:59, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Variant template names

Thanks for your work on improving short descriptions. I noticed that this change to Regulatory Authority for Audiovisual and Digital Communication was a swap of one valid template name for another one. This is a cosmetic change to the wikicode that has no real-world effect, and is contrary to MOS:VAR. (Same thing for capitalization.) Put another way, every edit should improve the article in some way, no matter how small, but this one didn't. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 22:57, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

York Castle

Re [2]: Come on!--217.155.32.221 (talk) 10:30, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

That is better, although you could state the intended opening date — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 10:34, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for the prompt response. I'm trying to avoid the [[MOS:CURRENT]] problem, which would have resolved itself in just two days' time.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 10:42, 29 March 2022 (UTC)

Cornish places

Hi, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Cornwall/Guideline. The "Cornwall, England, UK" wording was adopted after a lot of disruption and edit warring as a way of avoiding the same in future. DuncanHill (talk) 14:52, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

A 15 year old debate. I will try to avoid Cornwall then — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 14:59, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

No need to avoid Cornwall - just be aware that some people get very worked up about some choices of words! DuncanHill (talk) 15:01, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Very aware already! Best that I do avoid Cornwall — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 15:10, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

	The Technical Barnstar
	for the talk page script Paradise Chronicle (talk) 02:05, 6 April 2022 (UTC)

Re: Short descriptions (capitalized)

Dear GITM,
WILCO, I promise.

(I’m kinda sure I’ve read – somewhere – that short descriptions should begin with a small letter; maybe an old, deprecated rule? Anyway, starting with the capitalization is way more natural to me, so go for that!)

Best, --Filippof (talk) 16:26, 7 April 2022 (UTC)

So, your Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper edits...

I noticed that you're adjusting and fixing up a lot of short descriptions using Wikipedia:Shortdesc helper. How do you find all these articles to fix up? Is there an automated process or do you just start looking in general at Wikipedia articles? Thanks, Shearonink (talk) 14:51, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

@Shearonink: I monitor categories such as Category:Pages_using_short_description_with_unknown_parameters, Category:Pages with lower-case short description and Category:Articles with long short description which report "errors". Also, whenever I have time, I pick pages at random from Search for articles without a short description (skipping DAB pages). See also my Tidying page — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 15:23, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Ah thanks, appreciate the info. Shearonink (talk) 15:52, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

Does this matter?

Short description is different from Wikidata Tillywilly17 (talk) 06:12, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

no. That is a tracking category, which we could probably remove these days. The short descriptions used to be defaulted to the value in the Wikidata "description" value, but now they are not. If an article has no sd then the helper can pull in the Wikidata value as a starting point, but generally they should then be improved — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 06:21, 30 April 2022 (UTC)

Pitstone Windmill

Re your reversion of my edit to the Pitstone Windmill article, see the discussion at WP:HD#Adding a parameter to a template. We're trying to sort out the addition of alt text to images using {{infobox windmill}}. Once we've got it working, then all articles using that template can use alt text. This is a WP:ACCESSIBILITY issue. Mjroots (talk) 12:14, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

@Mjroots: Infobox windmill already has {{{alt}}}, which seems to do the job correctly. The template just needs to accept {{{image_alt}}} as an alias. When that is done, then add one of them to all of the infoboxes — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 13:00, 17 May 2022 (UTC)

Short descriptions

Your recent editing history at Introduction to Lattices and Order shows that you are currently engaged in an edit war; that means that you are repeatedly changing content back to how you think it should be, when you have seen that other editors disagree. To resolve the content dispute, please do not revert or change the edits of others when you are reverted. Instead of reverting, please use the talk page to work toward making a version that represents consensus among editors. The best practice at this stage is to discuss, not edit-war. See the bold, revert, discuss cycle for how this is done. If discussions reach an impasse, you can then post a request for help at a relevant noticeboard or seek dispute resolution. In some cases, you may wish to request temporary page protection.

Being involved in an edit war can result in you being blocked from editing—especially if you violate the three-revert rule, which states that an editor must not perform more than three reverts on a single page within a 24-hour period. Undoing another editor's work—whether in whole or in part, whether involving the same or different material each time—counts as a revert. Also keep in mind that while violating the three-revert rule often leads to a block, you can still be blocked for edit warring—even if you do not violate the three-revert rule—should your behavior indicate that you intend to continue reverting repeatedly.

Additionally, please stop trying to cram dates into short descriptions. It is mostly a mistake. Short descriptions have two major purposes: (1) {{annotated link}}, in see-also sections, (2) disambiguating search results, on mobile Wikipedia searches. They are supposed to be at most 40 characters, and that is not very much room. Therefore it is necessary to prioritize what to include. For books, the most important information is the fact that it's a book, what type of book it is (a textbook), the general field of the book (in this case, mathematics) and the more specific topic of the book (in this case, order theory). Next comes maybe the authors, behind all of which is the publication date. It's not the most important thing about the topic and it should not come first. Cramming it into the short description means that either we can include less of the important information, or we overflow the character limit, or (as in your latest attempt) we disorder the remaining words of the short description into a meaningless jumble "mathematical order theory". By doing so, you are making things worse.

In addition, you are violating WP:BRD. The FIRST TIME your edits were reverted, you should have taken it to the talk page of the article. Instead, you have edit-warred to add your beloved useless date information up front, over and over and over. That is not appropriate behavior for Wikipedia editing.

The correct response to finding yourself over the 3-revert limit is to undo your own edit. If you refuse to do so, it may be taken as evidence of an edit-warring mindset. —David Eppstein (talk) 19:07, 27 May 2022 (UTC)

On the NDIS Commission

Hey there! I saw that you changed the short description for the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission page. I've reverted your edit as it seems to suggest that the NDIS Commission regulates all services in Australia, which isn't quite true - not all social care services are NDIS-eligible, and the Commission only regulates the (small) category that are and only when they're involved in NDIS-funded care. I've also reverted your edit calling the Commission an agency - the NDIS Commission is lead by a Commissioner, not a Director-General. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions etc 😊 Tim (Talk to me) 12:27, 28 May 2022 (UTC)

@GhostInTheMachine - Just wanted to reach out again and make sure that you saw this message. I saw that you reinstated the old short description describing the NDIS Commission as an agency. I've reverted it as per this discussion and also as you didn't include any edit message. I would love to have a chat with you to discuss the material instead of us risking ending up edit warring, so feel free to reply here (making sure to {{Ping}} me), shoot me a message on my talk page, or create a section on the article talk page. Tim (Talk to me) 02:19, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission

Merger discussion for Hot dry rock geothermal energy

An article that you have been involved in editing—Hot dry rock geothermal energy—has been proposed for merging with another article. If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. Chidgk1 (talk) 18:25, 30 May 2022 (UTC)

Short descriptions

Thank you for reviewing my SDs. I find it very difficult to write something in < 40 characters. The sudden rush came about after I applied {{AnnotatedListOfLinks}} to Political correctness#See also, so you might like to give that a quick scan for any more howlers. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:59, 12 June 2022 (UTC)

@John Maynard Friedman: No worries. I am not really reviewing your SDs. I tend to look at all SDs that bounce in and out of the assorted tracking categories. I do find the challenge of crafting a suitable short SD to be a big part of the fun — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:44, 13 June 2022 (UTC)

ok but

re this. Please don't remove the Delrev note... _{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 10:07, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

Hey!

I see you removed my edits in Leitrim under the assumption of vandalism I’d like you to know that 2A00 is me before I made my account and even then how did adding content even consist of vandalism? Mooedlorre (talk) 22:47, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

@Mooedlorre: I assume that your intent was not to vandalise the article, but unfortunately, the effect was edits that left the article damaged.

If you look at this version of the article, you see it has a category: Category:Pages using infobox UK place with unknown parameters. I monitor that category, and so this is why I noticed the changes. If you go to edit this old version (don't actually edit it, just click on the edit link) you see warnings that say:

Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox UK place with unknown parameter "historic_county"
Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox UK place with unknown parameter "Civil parishes in Irela..."

I agree that I could have been more selective and reverted just the last 2 edits, but then we probably would not be talking.

The article still needs some general tidying – there are stray spaces, an extra full stop and a missing full stop. The links to South Down and Hilltown are to dab pages and need to be adjusted. There is also a self-link that makes little sense.

I will leave you to tidy these. Let me know if I can help — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 08:20, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

Besides I’m from that area anyway so why would I want to vandalise the page? Mooedlorre (talk) 22:58, 3 July 2022 (UTC)

In practice, nobody knows where an editor is really from - we are all just from the Internet. Also, the sad truth is that people from a specific town / village / area are often the ones most likely to want to make dubious / controversial / suspect changes! — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 08:20, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

It’s all good , the historic county was there when I started editing , I just didn’t know to add it in or not. The self link is referring not to the page but to the Townland of Leitrim . Looking back on it I should’ve made it more clear . To think I’m having a discussion with a user from Yorkshire over a location that some people who only live a few miles away from probably don’t know , But anyway Thanks for the help!

Mooedlorre (talk) 13:28, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

It’s all good , the historic county was there when I started editing , I just didn’t know to add it in or not. The self link is referring not to the page but to the Townland of Leitrim . Looking back on it I should’ve made it more clear . To think I’m having a discussion with a user from Yorkshire over a location that some people who only live a few miles away from probably don’t know , But anyway Thanks for the help!

Mooedlorre (talk) 13:28, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

WP:SD40

Why do you resist following the WP:SHORTDESC guidelines? Keep the short descriptions short, under 40 characters. You keep going over that length for no apparent reason. Following the guidelines does help. Following the WP:SIMPLE rules and explaining with an edit summary why you think there is some reason not to follow the rules might help too. Are you just not into the whole brevity thing El Duderino?

It is easy to do less and follow what the guidelines recommend. Making the short description more verbose and less short is of little benefit. The main purpose of the short description is to disambiguate similar titles, and highlighting key personnel is a good way to do that. Adding other details is mostly pointless.

Would my using an account help make any difference to you not following the rules? -- 109.78.204.113 (talk) 13:26, 7 August 2022 (UTC)

Notifications

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japanese war criminals

please Do not interfere with a beginning of a project to collect all japanese ww2 criminals, this is not vandalism !!! just a historical matter to make the difference between who were executed, who died in prison and who have been freed later from the Japanese gvt..."executed mention" must be inserted in the description list, we are not working on PC obituaries, we are working on History !!! thanks to cancel all your modifications Hanafunda (talk) 20:37, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

Moved to User talk:Hanafunda

Operation Bajrang

Hi @GhostInTheMachine:, regarding your edit in Operation Bajrang I would like to say that the operation was from November 1990 to April 1991, hence the Short description can't be "1991 Indian military operation" as in 1991, there were two more operations (for which I am creating article). I would be happy if you can improve the page Operation Bajrang with copyediting (kindly do not remove any information or sources) and assist me for photos. I am attempting it for GA. :) Would appreciate your help. Regards- _-✍ NeverTry4Me⛅ C♯ 09:36, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:Operation Bajrang

Short description

Hi Ghost In The Machine, In what way does your edit at improve the value of the short description to the reader? Cheers, · · · Peter Southwood ^(talk): 09:45, 25 August 2022 (UTC)

Moved to Talk:Ciposia

American?

Hi. About this edit: The Institute is active worldwide with offices in London, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Beijing, Shanghai and Abu Dhabi. The publisher is UK-based (but also with offices all over the world. What makes this "American"? --Randykitty (talk) 08:02, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Good question — the Financial Analysts Journal was derived from a journal established in America and the CFA could also be described as American. I guess they are all best classed as international now, so I have removed "American" from the SD and also changed a category to not specify "American" — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 09:53, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

• Thanks! --Randykitty (talk) 10:54, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Kishtwari

Thanks sir for understanding and reviewing my edits carefully. Shivam charak (talk) 10:53, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

The StoryGraph

Hi, @GhostInTheMachine! Last month, I proposed the article The StoryGraph, which you contributed to, for the Meta-Wiki project Translation of the week. Therefore, I would like to ask you to vote for it here so that other Wikipedias are encouraged to translate it into their language. Of course, you're more than welcome to take a look at other proposals and assess them if you feel like it. Thanks in advance and keep up the good work! --Brunnaiz (talk) 15:42, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

Kishtwari

Hello sir first of all thank you for accepting my new contributions to kishtwari page, sir i have a question about language family of kishtwari , can we add western pahadi too in language family as kishtwari is strongly influenced by pahari too. Indo aryan Kashmirc Western pahadi Shivam charak (talk) 16:29, 13 September 2022 (UTC)

@Shivam charak: My changes to Kishtwari were only to fix minor issues in the text. I do not know about the language families involved, so sorry, I cannot advise you — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 08:01, 16 September 2022 (UTC)

Short description

Why do u remove my circs and change it back to c. ? I didn't get it Ishan87 (talk) 21:42, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Please read WP:SDFORMAT — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 21:44, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Oh, okay. Sorry I didn't notice, got mixed up with the intro above the box while source editing. Ishan87 (talk) 21:50, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

My apologies for the trouble Ishan87 (talk) 21:51, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

No problem — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 22:03, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

Precious anniversary

Precious

Two years!

--Gerda Arendt (talk) 06:15, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

Mayasan maru

thanks to put the right language, (I spend most of the time on the French pages and sometimes I forget what I'm reading) :) Hanafunda (talk) 22:38, 22 October 2022 (UTC)

Sirsi, Karnataka

Sir some one vandalising article Sirsi, Karnataka by impersonate my user name , Sirsi is city in Karnataka, i request you please block him and also protect this article thank you in advance. Inedits (talk) 20:09, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

• Sorry, but I do not have the ability to block a user. If the article is incorrect and still being vandalised, please add a comment to the talk page there. — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 20:16, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
• @Inedits: talk:Sirsi, Karnataka — The article now now protected — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 20:19, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

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ITN recognition for Mochamad Hasbi

On 30 November 2022, In the news was updated with an item that involved the article Mochamad Hasbi, which you updated. If you know of another recently created or updated article suitable for inclusion in ITN, please suggest it on the candidates page. —Bagumba (talk) 06:13, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

OECD Controversy

Shouldn't the OECD controversy page be a part of the main OECD page, rather than being separate? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkarches (talk • contribs) 18:29, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

I have no idea. Maybe you should discuss that at Talk:Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development controversy? — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:50, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

... and a ping @Tkarches: — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:53, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

Change to Bohr-Mollerup

I think your short description for Bohr-Mollerup is not a good one, and I'm not happy that you reverted back to it without discussing it. It is a completely generic description that doesn't help anything. -- Walt Pohl (talk) 13:39, 4 December 2022 (UTC)

Internet Explorer short descriptions

Thanks for reverting my edit to Internet Explorer 11, I hadn't realized how the wording of that implied there were multiple versions that year. :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 17:59, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

@Eejit43: It is the same for the other IE articles! Do you want to change them, or shall I? — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:01, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

Already done :) ~ Eejit43 (talk) 18:07, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

— GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 18:20, 8 December 2022 (UTC)

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Jonathan Goldberg

Thank you for the gnomic work on short description over at Jonathan Goldberg. I just wanted to drop a note that I restored the obit as source for DoB. You'd removed it saying that the date is not stated there, but it is in the very last paragraph. It's true that this particular obit is not a great source, and there are other arguments that could point to removing it as source for DoB or even altogether. (But it is nice to use it to at least source that he has died, partly as a courtesy to his survivors; with luck the academic departments that he has worked in will eventually post more reliable obits.) Russ Woodroofe (talk) 23:30, 19 December 2022 (UTC)

Sadly, obits are often poor as references. I have added the birth date and place to the article text and attached the ref there instead of in the date range in the lead, which seems clearer to me. Is that better? — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 09:06, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

That looks good to me! This obit is weak even as obits go, but I think we can treat it as WP:SPSSELF for the bare basics. I will try to remember to look for better sourcing in a month or two. It looks like Goldberg was enough of a big deal that his academic professional societies should run at least an independent obit. Thanks again. Russ Woodroofe (talk) 10:27, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Happy Holidays

I wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Best regards RV (talk) 11:40, 23 December 2022 (UTC)