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Referring to the reverted diff [1], the point is this: {{annotated biography link}} transcludes the content of {{short description}}. What is required on Getty (surname) is "(1956–2011), grandson of J. Paul Getty", not "(1956–2011), Grandson of J. Paul Getty". Charles Matthews (talk) 06:04, 1 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Short descriptions are sentence case. If the {{Annotated link}} does not produce the desired effect, then just hand-craft the description for the list — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 06:25, 1 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Hello, as you are more experienced with Wikipedia processes, may I ask you how you see the situation? Honestly I'm completely hallucinating by what's going on, for me it's disfunctional at every level. AbcSxyZ (talk) 13:25, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

I'm thinking about adding the content in a source file section within source code to follow their absurdity, as they recommend according to the consensus supported by a single commentator, hoping people complain in source code for conceptual inconsistencies in the week (idk how long I can have), then drv. It avoid "OR" from the lead this way.

Edit: maybe no drv, just add the content there to be slowly filled, let people state the absurdity over the time to create a source file page on their own at some point, COI is too much of a weapon against me.

"even renaming the target, if there's consensus to do so on the target's Talk page." AbcSxyZ (talk) 13:52, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

The Source files article definitely needed more work, but it was gradually improving. The arguments for keeping it to allow further work, although straightforward to you (and me) did not seem straightforward to the closer. I suspect that the votes against just sounded more convincing. So mistakes do happen. We often need to accept them and move on – painful though it can be. I would advise that, for a while at least, you only edit articles unrelated to open source and the like. I would especially advise against copying any content from the old version for some while.

The last version of the article before the switch to a redirect is available at 1368633959, so the content is not lost. That version contained text related to six different example domains, so it may be valid to see if part of that text with the refs might be suitable for adding into articles covering those domains — GhostInTheMachine ^{talk to me} 16:52, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

A closure in line with the side providing no coherent arguments and no sources, I genuinely admire the performance 🙃

I will do a basic merge tomorrow while it's hot, raise the talk, and see how it goes from here. I need it for theoretical anchor of source files section in open source anyway as they break conceptual consistency in various ways.

I'm a kind of contributor focused on my field, so may just monitor and eventually disappear for a while!

What an experience... Thanks for your support and understanding btw, appreciable to not always fight alone against the world! AbcSxyZ (talk) 19:59, 11 August 2026 (UTC)Reply