User talk:Fred Gandt

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Editing advice/meta

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long time no see!

Hey Fred, if you have time, can you help me with formatting the reference I found for Salt Lake City Police Department, concerning the death of Megan Joyce Mohn? Thanks. Rich (talk) 09:29, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Hey Rich. It's very easy with one of the standard citation templates. There are specific ones for specific things, but if in doubt, and the reference can be viewed online (as in this case), just use {{cite web}}. Full instructions on how to use it are in the template's documentation. If you get confused, come back to me. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 13:29, 5 April 2025 (UTC)

Your userpage as viewed on a phone

Hi Fred, apologies if this feels like it comes out of nowhere. Just an FYI. Your userpage came up on Discord as an example that did not look great on smartphones – might be due to custom CSS. It affects both the mobile apps and the mobile web browser display. Here are a couple of screenshots from my iPhone/Safari. ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 02:39, 21 April 2025 (UTC)

portrait
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Hi. Thanks for the heads-up and the effort it took to provide it. I will look into it.
People talking about me on Discord eh? B)
Saying my userpage looks bad :(
The highs and lows of fame ;) Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 02:51, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
I wouldn't take it personally – as a former webdev I know we can't anticipate what kinds of device people from the future might be using! ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 03:04, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
All my code works perfectly on my computer! I really can't understand the problem ;)
I'm currently trying to force some Python to behave but apparently I have to follow some arbitrary rules or something, or it throws things at me. Coding! Grr. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 03:12, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
My Python is now behaving, and it looks like this display issue is caused by the hacky absolute positioning I employed. With it being past 5am and about my bedtime, I'll have a look at fixing it tomorrow. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 04:21, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
Probably fixed Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 22:23, 21 April 2025 (UTC)
It is! ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 03:18, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
I actually noticed that the mobile view (en.m.wiki...) on mobile displayed fine, but to save trying to find an ideal solution for every conceivable device and client, some good old fashioned scrollbars do a smashing job ;) Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 03:55, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
Oh interesting, I try to avoid the m. domains and there's talk of sunsetting them: mw:Requests for comment/Mobile domain sunsetting ClaudineChionh (she/her · talk · email · global) 04:01, 22 April 2025 (UTC)
I'm a devout desktop enjoyer and mobile avoider, so frankly don't mind if the m-links fall into the void, or if the apps tumble in after them. I recognise my bias.
When I found that image, it just carried me away; that's a photo of a hill on another planet, taken by a robot built and sent there by bald apes... Using it as a background image for my silly blurb was mostly a technical experiment for the lulz. At no point did I consider that anyone would actually care to look at it.
Nice to meet you :) Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 04:36, 22 April 2025 (UTC)

I have sent you a note about a page you started

Hi Fred Gandt. Thank you for your work on Duo Ruut. Another editor, Klbrain, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

Thanks for creating an article on this musical duo in English. To expand, it would be helpful for readers to read more about the critical success of the duo's albums and songs.

To reply, leave a comment here and begin it with {{Re|Klbrain}}. (Message delivered via the Page Curation tool, on behalf of the reviewer.)

Klbrain (talk) 11:31, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Thank you. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 13:03, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

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HouseBlaster (talk • he/they) 22:33, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Thank you :) Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 22:38, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

Message on my talk page

Gidday mate, sorry if this is to the wrong person. Someone left a message on my talk page and I THINK it was you, but since they didn’t sign their message, I can’t be 100% sure. anyway, assuming that that WAS you,

As you point out, the vast majority of my edits don’t have descriptive edit summaries - the explanation for this is pretty simple, the vast majority of my edits is changing tags on talk pages associated with the Japan WikiProject. Mostly updating stub designation on articles which are no longer stubs, and/or adding an importance rating. These edits are incredibly self-evident, and it would seem weird to actually write more to describe the edit than I do for the edit itself. If you look through my edit history, you will notice that when I edit articles themselves, I almost always leave edit summaries.

If you don’t mind me asking, which of my article edits did you “notice” this on anyway?

Hope you’re having a great day 👍 Absurdum4242 (talk) 09:36, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Only self evident if one looks at the diff, which is the point; I shouldn't need to look at the diff to find out what you did. I now also see that you use MOS:CURLY quote marks and apostrophes, and can only hope not in articles. I don't mind you asking at all; you added unnecessary whitespace to a talk page.
Of course it WAS me who left the message and unusually forgot to sign. Your passive-aggressive preamble BS is as unnecessary as that whitespace you added without an edit summary. Fred Gandt · talk · contribs 09:50, 24 September 2025 (UTC)

Warning templates on User talk:Binksternet

Have you heard of Wikipedia:Don't template the regulars?

I think it would have been a lot more productive if you wrote yourself a message on either User talk:Binksternet, or the article's talk page, describing precisely what you think is wrong with his edits, rather than using some generic warning template that we usually mostly hand out to new or inexperienced editors for more obvious policy/guideline violations. — AP 499D25 (talk) 03:14, 27 September 2025 (UTC)

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