User talk:Baffle gab1978

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Autopatrolled?

You deserve the autopatrolled flag; let me know if you want it. All the best, Miniapolis 16:49, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi Miniapolis, thanks for the offer but I'm not a prolific creator of mainspace articles (my WP-career total is nine so far!) so I don't really think I need it. I'll keep it in mind though. :) Cheers, Baffle☿gab 20:51, 13 May 2024 (UTC)

Readability script

This is in continuation of our conversation on the talk page of User:InformationToKnowledge. You said there "I've no idea what your readability script does; I don't need help to detect difficult-to-parse texts". Just in case you are curious about that script, you can see it explained and discussed here. Or direct link: Readability tool: To install this script, go to your common.js and add the following line: importScript('User:Phlsph7/Readability.js'); // Backlink: User:Phlsph7/Readability.js.

I know you said you don't need such a script. That's great but for a lot of people it will be very useful, even to just get a very quick overview of what's going on on an article. This is also how I detected that you had not yet copy edited that particular section in the climate crisis article, without even having to read it. After your edits it was no longer bright red... I will ask a couple of follow-up questions on the talk page of climate crisis but noting that it should not chew up too much of your time. EMsmile (talk) 07:37, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi again @EMsmile:, thanks for your reply here to my comments there (permalink for context). I'm glad lots of other people find your readability script useful but I don't. I edit here in a browser with JavaScript disabled so such a script is not useful to me, as well as for the reason you quote above. I've replied to your comments at the article's talk page here (permalink for context). Cheers, Baffle☿gab 02:35, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Quick GOCE rule question

Hi! I know that you don't accept requests outside of the GOCE process, and I won't be doing that. Instead, I have a more procedural question.

Essentially, if I have submitted a certain request a while ago, but then I decided another article needs copy-editing more than the original one does - would I be allowed to change the article link under that request while it is still unclaimed, or do I have to delete that request entirely and "restart the countdown" for the new article request? Since we are limited to 2 active requests at a time (and I certainly understand why) it's a very relevant question, and I do not think it is explicitly addressed in the rules.

Again, thanks for answering my request for the Climate crisis article! InformationToKnowledge (talk) 01:52, 17 May 2024 (UTC)

Hi @InformationToKnowledge:, yes, you are allowed to replace one unaccepted request with another, and you don't need to re-date the replaced request; just note the replacement in your edit summary. I'm glad the c/e was useful, though I wasn't expecting as much fallout (see above) from what was a fairly straightforward c/e! Cheers, Baffle☿gab 02:44, 17 May 2024 (UTC)