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Does |date= mean the date on which the draft was created, last edited, or tagged? Paradoctor (talk) 04:08, 31 August 2024 (UTC)Reply

Creation, I believe, or if it was moved to the draft space, the date that occurred. Primefac (talk) 16:45, 1 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

Ok, then I did ok so far. I also had the case in userspace where a page is used for multiple differents drafts, serially or concurrently. I'll use the incept date of the current draft, or the incept date of oldest of the currents drafts, then. Thanks! Paradoctor (talk) 02:23, 2 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Replace:

{{Clickable button | ... | style=style=line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0.1em 1.6em 0.1em 1.6em}}

with:

{{Clickable button | ... | style=line-height: 1.6em; padding: 0.1em 1.6em 0.1em 1.6em}}

since style=style= is a duplicate :p BlankEclair (talk) 14:29, 23 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

 Completed. P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 19:18, 23 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Paine Ellsworth, from my read of Module:Clickable_button#L-167 the |style= parameter is not passed to the module as style={{{style}}} but rather as just {{{style}}}; in other words, the duplicate "style=" is not a duplicate, it is passing the "style=X" into the |style= parameter. Primefac (talk) 15:09, 25 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

To editor Primefac: that's curious, it seems like a non-standard work around. I'm still researching and so far have found the {{Wiktionary redirect}} template, which uses CB with a style parameter that is not redundant. Is that correct? or should it also use the style=style=... code? P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 19:37, 25 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I've also found extensive usage of the {{Photo requested}} template, which does not use the |style= parameter, but it does use the |class= parameter. That makes me wonder if that is correct as well, or should it use a redundant class=class= format like the style parameter?

There is also the automatic usage of the CB (I think, but it might be from Mediawiki) on empty talk pages to "start a discussion". Haven't found that yet, but it appears that it's usage is deprecated. Still looking... P.I. Ellsworth , ed. ^{put'er there} 20:10, 25 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

Doing {{Clickable button | UwU | style=style=display: none}} results in a duplicate style=, as seen here: UwU

Additionally, mw.html:cssText is documented to set the style attribute, which is corroborated in this demo and the source code. BlankEclair (talk) 22:58, 25 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

I suppose I have read it wrong. Thanks for the clarifications. Primefac (talk) 23:15, 25 May 2025 (UTC)Reply

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The icons on draft templates all use the non-glossy version, except {{Userspace draft}} and {{Draft article}}. I think there's no reason they should be differerent in sizes and "glossyness". Additionally, the icon sizes are different between them. All of these templates already use the opaque version:

• {{Template draft}}
• {{Draft RfC}}
• {{Userspace notes}}

I think the sizes of these icons should be changed to 50px, or to another size as long as all of them use that size, and the blue glossy icons should be replaced by the icon used in {{Draft RfC}} and in {{Userspace notes}}. Thoughts? FaviFake (talk) 21:34, 29 October 2025 (UTC)Reply

More than a hundred watchers haven't replied in two weeks, so I'll assume this is uncontroversial and place the tag. i've implemented the changes in both sandboxes. FaviFake (talk) 17:35, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Where are you getting those numbers? By my count a grand total of 20 people have seen this post and your cross-posts. Primefac (talk) 23:12, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

I got it from the number of people watchlisting both templates. Is there a way to see the number of people who viewed a specific discussion? FaviFake (talk) 13:59, 11 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

Directly under the number of watchlisters is "Number of page watchers who visited in the last 30 days", which gives a fairly good indication of how many people have actually looked at recent posts. Primefac (talk) 09:35, 12 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

thanks. FaviFake (talk) 11:22, 12 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

 Done Seems uncontroversial enough to just go ahead and do. Here's Draft article and Userspace draft. Changed to the non-shiny icon, and standardized at a 50px icon size. phuzion (talk) 22:11, 10 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

thanks! FaviFake (talk) 14:00, 11 November 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Description of suggested change: Wikipedia:So you made a userspace draft has been merged to Help:Userspace draft and now redirects to the "Creation" section; this edit would prevent new users from thinking that they're opening an entire page when it only redirects to a section.

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Whyiseverythingalreadyused (t · c · he/him) 02:20, 9 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

 Done Zackmann (^{Talk to me}/_{What I been doing}) 03:13, 9 February 2026 (UTC)Reply