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Possible issue with Visual Editor
Using: Chrome: 112.0.5615.50, Windows 10 (64-bit), Vector legacy (2010)
I know that there are limitations with Visual Editor and templates but I've started to notice it acting weird on a few specifically. If you edit certain templates with Visual Editor, it will most of time, mess up the parameter spacing and hidden comments that may also be in the template. Below are the templates I've seen the most effected by VE; I would surmise there are a lot of other templates which can get messed up regarding the hidden comments and parameter spacing in them.
Template:Infobox settlement: Removes parameter spacing; messes up hidden comments (Example).
Template:Infobox U.S. county: Doesn't create a new line for each new parameter added (Example)
Template:US Census population: May mess up the parameter spacing (Example).
Template:Jct: How the template is viewed in VE mode means the parameter order get reversed (Example).
Other: If imputing bullet points manually, user can create multiple different bullet "charts" which don't merge into a single "chart" (Example).
To my best knowledge, these issues don't hurt the contents of the template if in "Read" mode (expect for the bullet point issue), but it does mess up the template layout which could be a problem for other users. I'm concerned that, due to the nature of the issue and amount of bytes it add/removes, Wikipedia might incorrectly ping newer users edits as vandalism and led to edit reverts or bans (which is unfair since many don't know). I've tried to minimize using VE with templates now but I've seen many others who use VE and unintentionally mess up the template(s). All in all, not an immediate concern, but it might be good to investigate the issue in the future. Thank you for your time; have a good day.
Uploading images not working
- User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/126.0.0.0
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onegai_My_Melody?veswitched=1&oldid=1225020990&action=edit
Onegaimymelodybest (talk) 20:36, 1 July 2024 (UTC)
This is not entering my citations correctly its changing their numbers when i click re use!
- User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/127.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Nanette_unsolved/sandbox&veaction=edit This is not entering my citations correctly its changing their numbers when i click re use! and changing them to different number citations that do not correspond with what I have entered below in references. So it's now impossible to add the correct citations.
Nanette unsolved (talk) 03:26, 9 August 2024 (UTC)
@1 94.154.26.62 (talk) 15:59, 15 August 2024 (UTC)
81.18.234.50 (talk) 16:47, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
cannot find the cite button on mobile
- User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 13; Mobile; rv:130.0) Gecko/130.0 Firefox/130.0
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clepsis_brachyptycta&oldid=1187719015&veaction=edit Where has it gone? It usually is on the toolbar. I'm using the desktop css
So9q (talk) 09:42, 16 September 2024 (UTC)
Please change the name of this page to Bowmans
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URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bowman_Gilfillan&oldid=1246022824&action=edit
69.67.41.66 (talk) 09:15, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
Many spelling errors were shown but the spelling through was correct but not recognized leading to this article being falsely flagged.
- User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Ranger (talk) 14:55, 17 September 2024 (UTC)
- 'gaje;glhjenrg;aekgjnaerpiguaehrg;karga;kgjnrgj;vefjb;ena;rkgjeb
- ajf;njf;vjnv;nv;akjgh;wgh;lj;lj;lj;lkjlkjklj 2603:7081:2E00:8AAF:11AF:B6BA:38F4:3BD8 (talk) 21:54, 24 September 2024 (UTC)
Possibly incorect act
- User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Myst%C3%A8re_(Cirque_du_Soleil)&action=edit
Under Retired acts, "Chinese Poles (1993 - 2011)" is listed. Does this refer to a revamp of the act?
AoNaKooza (talk) 12:55, 30 September 2024 (UTC)
submission error
- User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/128.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Patoo_Abraham&action=edit
When I try to publish my changes to the article, I am told that I cannot because An automated filter has identified this edit as potentially unconstructive, so it has been disallowed. If this edit is constructive, please report this error. Disruptive behavior may result in being blocked from editing. Report error."
It does not tell me what exactly the error is, so I do not know how to proceed to submit my assignment.