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I was surprised to see you revert my edits here. I took the action as part of wider work to remove content added by a now-blocked sockpupet who made a wide variety and amount of LLM-aided content additions. Unfortunately, with this article I hit a WP:TNT situation due to the intervening edits. I've already messaged the editor who made those. Please revert yourself per WP:LLM / WP:LLMPRV -- thanks! Ed [talk] [OMT] 18:43, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
- The fact that a user has used LLM material does not justify reverting dozens of edits to a page just because edits from 6 months ago used LLM. You edits removed multiple valid intervening edits and removed valid information from the Infobox (placing this page and numerous others into error/maintenance categories). If you believe that there is LLM content on this specific page, you should remove that content, not just lazily revert dozens of edits because 3 of them may have been performed with LLM. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:46, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
- It actually can justify it in some situations. See WP:TNT, which I linked to for a reason. Let me know if you'd like to help with combing through these hundreds of edits dating back to at least March. Ed [talk] [OMT] 18:49, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
- Sure, but an important cornerstone of WP:TNT is WP:BATHWATER. I think in this instance you've done roughly equal parts baby throwing and bath-emptying, I think calling it lazy is a bit harsh but support the revert. Elirockenbeck1 (talk) 19:31, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
- The sockpuppet 4x'd the article, and Martin made revisions and additions on top of that. It is not easy to disentangle, which is why WP:TNT exists in the first place. I'll assume Zackmann08 has assumed responsibility for the LLM content, including checking its accuracy. Ed [talk] [OMT] 03:45, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- You can easily remove the supposed LLM content without reverting good and valid edits. Really not that hard. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:47, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Great to hear. As the reverter and per LLMPRVOBJ, I'd invite you to take that task on; speaking not in any sort of annoyed tone, but if you can guess by my recent contribs, I genuinely don't have available time to do it. Ed [talk] [OMT] 03:51, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- We all have tasks we are busy with. As YOU are the one who has identified the LLM content, you are welcome to remove it. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:05, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- To be clear, it was the lack of recent contributions due to real-life needs.
- Per what you've said, I've re-removed the content until the LLM content can be verified or removed. Thanks. Ed [talk] [OMT] 04:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- We all have tasks we are busy with. As YOU are the one who has identified the LLM content, you are welcome to remove it. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:05, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Great to hear. As the reverter and per LLMPRVOBJ, I'd invite you to take that task on; speaking not in any sort of annoyed tone, but if you can guess by my recent contribs, I genuinely don't have available time to do it. Ed [talk] [OMT] 03:51, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- You can easily remove the supposed LLM content without reverting good and valid edits. Really not that hard. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:47, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- The sockpuppet 4x'd the article, and Martin made revisions and additions on top of that. It is not easy to disentangle, which is why WP:TNT exists in the first place. I'll assume Zackmann08 has assumed responsibility for the LLM content, including checking its accuracy. Ed [talk] [OMT] 03:45, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Sure, but an important cornerstone of WP:TNT is WP:BATHWATER. I think in this instance you've done roughly equal parts baby throwing and bath-emptying, I think calling it lazy is a bit harsh but support the revert. Elirockenbeck1 (talk) 19:31, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
- It actually can justify it in some situations. See WP:TNT, which I linked to for a reason. Let me know if you'd like to help with combing through these hundreds of edits dating back to at least March. Ed [talk] [OMT] 18:49, 16 August 2026 (UTC)
AI
[edit]Pls check with AI detectors before deleting someone's hard work GerryBoy69 (talk) 10:56, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
- Moved to right place and added a section heading. Graham87 (talk) 11:15, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
- Nonsense. You were reverted for violating the BLP policy at Marc Márquez. Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 11:17, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Whyiseverythingalreadyused: That message refers to this revert at Mick Doohan, which GerryBoy69 mistakenly posted about on my talk page. Graham87 (talk) 11:19, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
- Damn. I first saw them commit BLP violations at Marc Márquez, but... I see now. Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 11:22, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
- @GerryBoy69: your edit contained multiple WP:LLMSIGNS as well as triggering multiple filters. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:57, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
- Damn. I first saw them commit BLP violations at Marc Márquez, but... I see now. Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 11:22, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Whyiseverythingalreadyused: That message refers to this revert at Mick Doohan, which GerryBoy69 mistakenly posted about on my talk page. Graham87 (talk) 11:19, 21 August 2026 (UTC)
A barnstar for you!
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The Technical Barnstar |
| Seeing your name in my watchlist every week or so makes me slightly happy. It's always nice to be reminded that there's someone behind the scenes maintaining the templates used in thousands of articles. FaviFake (talk) 15:10, 23 August 2026 (UTC) |
- Well thank you!! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 15:27, 23 August 2026 (UTC)
I Need some help with a page
[edit]I need help on finding an image for the table in the page Nickwall, Montana Miggy302913 (talk) 21:25, 24 August 2026 (UTC)
- Not sure what you are talking about or asking for... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:31, 27 August 2026 (UTC)
@BAG
[edit]Hi Zackmann08, you might be interested in adding yourself to {{@BAG}} so you can receive pings from users/other BAG members for matters which require BAG attention. — Tenshi! (Talk page) 15:44, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
- Thanks! done. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 15:46, 25 August 2026 (UTC)
Ryan Chaplain
[edit]Why did you remobe the chaplain for Archbishop Ryan? ~2026-46122-16 (talk) 14:45, 26 August 2026 (UTC)
- What page are you talking about? What did I supposedly
remobe [sic]
. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:32, 27 August 2026 (UTC)- (talk page stalker) I believe they are talking about this 'remobal'. They added the unrecognized
|campus minister=in one of their four edits. Template:Infobox school does have a|campus_director=parameter, but I wouldn't know if that's an equivalent term. Probably? - TA editor, Wikipedia is overrun with unrecognized and unwanted parameters right now, and Zackmann's leading an appreciated charge on getting many templates cleaned up, so using recognized parameters is helpful (plus if the parameter is not recognized, it won't display on the article's infobox, fyi). Feel free to look at any infobox's template page to see the full list of recognized parameters for that template and the helpful details for using them. Zinnober9 (talk) 03:20, 27 August 2026 (UTC)
- (talk page stalker) I believe they are talking about this 'remobal'. They added the unrecognized
Castleton Square
[edit]Which part of the anchor store situation is OR? This is a GA-class article and the issue of possible OR was never brought up during the review. Ten Pound Hammer (they/them) • (What did I screw up now?) 04:27, 29 August 2026 (UTC)
- Ok for starters, if you had bothered to read the comment I left on your talk page, or bothered to WP:PREVIEW your edits, you would see that
|anchors=is not a valid parameter, so not sure why you reverted that edit. Second, claiming that these stores are the achors of the mall is unsourced and you just now added it. NOT when it was reviewed for a GA so you cannot claim that itwas never brought up during the review.
That obviously makes no sense. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:30, 29 August 2026 (UTC)- Prior versions of the article listed off the current anchors, a piece which seems to have been removed by another editor at some point. Also, I mess the anchor paramater up a lot. Ten Pound Hammer (they/them) • (What did I screw up now?) 17:02, 29 August 2026 (UTC)
Lost parameters in infobox motorsport season
[edit]Hi, I can see you're going ahead with the TfD resolution and converting all {{Motorsport season}} into {{Infobox motorsport season}} already. However, in doing so, some useful features of the former (which I mentioned in the TfD), namely the footings Parent series, Sister series and Support series, are being lost. See for example the before and after in DTM. What's your plan? MSport1005 (talk) 23:55, 29 August 2026 (UTC)
- Will re-examine and find a better solution. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:16, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
Ha!
[edit]As penance, I'll fix this :) Jessicapierce (talk) 04:31, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- HA! I hope you know I was 10000% kidding. If I had a nickel for every time I've done something like that... Keep up your great work! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 04:32, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
Motorsport season template
[edit]Please stop replacing Template:Motorsport season with Infobox:Motorsport season en masse. You are citing a TfD from eight months ago that ended with merge and rebuild (which was your suggestion) but this has not been done. The two are still very different looking at the documentation pages. The infobox, as far as I can tell, has no way to add support series (a heavily used section to aid navigation) and you are removing important information from the page by not replacing the champions categories. Did you ask anyone from the motorsport editing community before you began these changes? We don't want to have to clean up YOUR work by adding information back that you removed. - Mitchea99 (talk) 09:34, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Ah, after posting I can see you have discussed this with MSport too, but only editing pages that don't use the footer section (which I think is what you're doing now?) doesn't solve the issue that the template is inadequate. The rest is still true. You also added it to 2014 Queensland Handball League season, so clearly things aren't being reviewed properly. - Mitchea99 (talk) 09:42, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- You need to chill out dude. I am CURRENTLY only doing pages that don't use the footer section while I figure out how to integrate the footer. As for 2014 Queensland Handball League season that page used Template:Motorsport season so I replaced it with the new template. It is not on me that the wrong template was used to begin with. The merge WAS performed over the course of nearly a dozen edits. It is not yet completed as I am still working on the footer section. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 15:59, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Just a heads-up — in some cases, such as this, you're deleting the champions, instead of adapting them to the new infobox. MSport1005 (talk) 16:27, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- @MSport1005: I had a bad regex in my first run which effed that up. I'm trying to go back and fix the bad ones, but please feel free to revert on sight (or manually fix if you can/want) any that you find. That is 100% on me and I do apologize. NOT intentional. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:29, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Slight heads up but four minutes after you posted the message above, another champion was deleted. Road Atlanta Turn 5 (Talk) 16:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- I can help clean up the accidental removals using my own AWB run, give me a few minutes. Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 16:53, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Ok, I've reverted most of the accidental removals from the past few days, with the exception of some specified in the below discussion. Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 18:44, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Crestfalling, @MSport1005, @Mitchea99, @Road Atlanta Turn 5 I am walking away from the project and will not make any further edits related to this merge. Someone else can figure this one out. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:49, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- I apologize if I caused any problems. I was trying to help so that the information could be converted in another run. You may remove this message or any other ones of my mine from this page if you wish. Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 18:53, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Crestfalling: to be clear, I was the one who screwed this up. No one likes logging on to find 100+ reverts of their edits, but I'm the one who broke 100+ pages. You took the time to manually revert all these problematic edits. ZERO ire towards you or anyone else. Again, I'm the one who screwed this up. Appreciate you taking the time. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:56, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Totally understand, I probably should have talked with you first to see if there was any easier way to arrange things. Thanks for the clarification :) Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 19:00, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- I've been offline and you did the right thing. My edits removed information from the page, which is not acceptable. Could you have pinged me first? Sure. But I 100% support reverting bad edits on sight. For future reference, I am available on Discord at the same username, but you are not under any obligation to talk to me before reverting. The valid point you made, however, is that there may have been an easier way. Might have been easier for me to self-revert. Either way, as I said, I support your actions. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:03, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Makes sense, if it's not an urgent thing (i.e. page isn't broken), you know your script better. Anyway, I've just added you on Discord. Let me know if you ever need any help. Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 19:13, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- I've been offline and you did the right thing. My edits removed information from the page, which is not acceptable. Could you have pinged me first? Sure. But I 100% support reverting bad edits on sight. For future reference, I am available on Discord at the same username, but you are not under any obligation to talk to me before reverting. The valid point you made, however, is that there may have been an easier way. Might have been easier for me to self-revert. Either way, as I said, I support your actions. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 19:03, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Totally understand, I probably should have talked with you first to see if there was any easier way to arrange things. Thanks for the clarification :) Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 19:00, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Crestfalling: to be clear, I was the one who screwed this up. No one likes logging on to find 100+ reverts of their edits, but I'm the one who broke 100+ pages. You took the time to manually revert all these problematic edits. ZERO ire towards you or anyone else. Again, I'm the one who screwed this up. Appreciate you taking the time. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:56, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- I apologize if I caused any problems. I was trying to help so that the information could be converted in another run. You may remove this message or any other ones of my mine from this page if you wish. Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 18:53, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Crestfalling, @MSport1005, @Mitchea99, @Road Atlanta Turn 5 I am walking away from the project and will not make any further edits related to this merge. Someone else can figure this one out. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:49, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Ok, I've reverted most of the accidental removals from the past few days, with the exception of some specified in the below discussion. Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 18:44, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- I can help clean up the accidental removals using my own AWB run, give me a few minutes. Crestfalling (talk/contribs) 16:53, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Slight heads up but four minutes after you posted the message above, another champion was deleted. Road Atlanta Turn 5 (Talk) 16:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- @MSport1005: I had a bad regex in my first run which effed that up. I'm trying to go back and fix the bad ones, but please feel free to revert on sight (or manually fix if you can/want) any that you find. That is 100% on me and I do apologize. NOT intentional. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 16:29, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Just a heads-up — in some cases, such as this, you're deleting the champions, instead of adapting them to the new infobox. MSport1005 (talk) 16:27, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- You need to chill out dude. I am CURRENTLY only doing pages that don't use the footer section while I figure out how to integrate the footer. As for 2014 Queensland Handball League season that page used Template:Motorsport season so I replaced it with the new template. It is not on me that the wrong template was used to begin with. The merge WAS performed over the course of nearly a dozen edits. It is not yet completed as I am still working on the footer section. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 15:59, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
A suggestion
[edit]Something I noticed before your bot request (kept forgetting to mention it) is that when you are fixing the deprecated infobox params you link to the tracking category, but when that category is deleted it's then a redlink (and falls into the "pain in the butt" category for getting to the infobox itself). My suggestion (which I've been doing for my runs) is to link to the infobox directly. I'm not saying you have to, but it's something to consider. Primefac (talk) 18:27, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- @Primefac: that is a great idea! Appreciate the suggestion and I will update my process moving forward. --Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 18:50, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
I made a userscript that can automatically detect and replace deprecated parameters, which might be helpful to users reading your Unknown-params-warning. Cheers, msk 20:30, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- That's awesome! Something to be careful of... What if the deprecated parameter is used in a different template on the page? Does it ONLY search within the code for the specific template? or does it find-replace in the entire page? Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:18, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, that possibility is accounted for. msk 21:24, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Good deal. I made that mistake early on... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 21:28, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, that possibility is accounted for. msk 21:24, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
Some suggested wording changes:
| − | ...Specifying {{para|some_param|{{var|some_variable}}}} does not always mean that variable will display. The {{para|some_param}} needs to be defined in the template in order to work. You can look at the documentation for the template being used, but it is | + | ...Specifying {{para|some_param|{{var|some_variable}}}} does not always mean that variable will display. The {{para|some_param}} needs to be defined in the template in order to work. You can look at the documentation for the template being used, but it is to use the [[Help:Show preview|preview]] button before saving an edit; this helps find any errors that have been displaying . Below the edit box is a ''Show preview'' button. Pressing this will show what the page will look like without actually saving it. :</includeonly>#if:{{{1|}}}|. I have likely fixed the error by now so check the [[Special:History/{{{1}}}|history]] of the page to see how it was fixed. I|. I}}f you have any please let me know! can also contact the [[WP:HD|help desk]] for assistance |
- removed
It is highly recommended that editors use this before saving
as that is sufficiently implied byIt is helpful and important to use the preview button
msk 22:40, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- You seem to be missing the point of my message which does NOT target those who insert/use deprecated parameters, but those who insert parameters that do not work at all... Deprecated parameters will still work. That warning message is for people who insert (NOT making this example up)
|best_friend=Joe Smithinto {{Infobox person}} expecting it will work. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:43, 30 August 2026 (UTC)- Ah.. completely misread that. I could've sworn you had a template for using deprecated parameters. msk 22:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Nah not worth the time or effort. People who use deprecated parameters 99.9% of the time it is because the documentation hasn't yet been updated. That's not a big issue. But I do like a few of your verbiage changes above. Will be incorporating those in a bit. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 22:47, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
- Ah.. completely misread that. I could've sworn you had a template for using deprecated parameters. msk 22:46, 30 August 2026 (UTC)
Does User:Zackmann08/scripts/indent work on 2017 wikitext editor?
[edit]Or does it only work on the original editor? I can't seem to find the tools button for the script to work (or I'm just being dumb again). Hason-LEK-🇸🇬 ● 💬 ● 🧱 ● 🧪 00:45, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
- I never use the visual editor (aka 2017 wikitext editor) so I doubt it will work there. You need to editing the raw source code for it to work. Sorry! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 02:14, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
Liceu
[edit]1) My intention was to stop the older name of this theatre institution (not the building itself) as being an earlier name. It is not a nickname. I’ve just tried to take out the name without taking out "nickname" but I can't find it. on the visual editor,which Is what I normally use,being more uer friendly) How could I do that? 2) I've seen a lot of this kind of edit recently. Can you tell me their purpose and the purpose of the template? Ive presumed they control the infobox. I this right? Mot of the edits have been unobjectionable so I haven't altered them 3) I' sorry if you thought I was being disruptive. That wasn't my intention. 4) Have you spotted any other suspect edit of mine recently? My intention is always to retain the good part of the encyclopedia and improve it If I can but I do enjoy a little intellectual argument occasionally with this intention in mind. Spinney Hill (talk) 08:06, 31 August 2026 (UTC)Spinney Hill (talk) 08:08, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
- There is no difference in how it is displayed... The valid parameter is
|nickname=. If you look at the page, it does not call it a nickname, it just displays the name so you are quibbling over something that does not actually matter. Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:47, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
Bot bug
[edit]ZackBot apparently changed a topic. Dl2000 (talk) 23:54, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
Investigating... What the actual hell?! Standby... Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 23:56, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
- @DI2000: first and foremost, thank you for catching this, reverting it AND taking the time to notify me. I have no clue what happened here... I've used the same process both on this account with manually clicking save and on ZackBot with auto-saving enabled to make over a half million edits. This is the first time I have seen this. My guess is that there was some sort of API hiccup and somehow it grabbed the info from Port Arthur Stadium instead. How/why that happened... I have no clue. 1 error in over a half million edits doesn't worry me too much, but certainly something I will be looking into further. Thank you again! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 00:00, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
- No problem, strange things can happen with software, perhaps some buffer sync problems somewhere along the way. Hopefully this was a one-time (or at least super-rare) occurrence. Dl2000 (talk) 00:27, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
- @DI2000: first and foremost, thank you for catching this, reverting it AND taking the time to notify me. I have no clue what happened here... I've used the same process both on this account with manually clicking save and on ZackBot with auto-saving enabled to make over a half million edits. This is the first time I have seen this. My guess is that there was some sort of API hiccup and somehow it grabbed the info from Port Arthur Stadium instead. How/why that happened... I have no clue. 1 error in over a half million edits doesn't worry me too much, but certainly something I will be looking into further. Thank you again! Zackmann (Talk to me/What I been doing) 00:00, 1 September 2026 (UTC)
