Esolang talk:Help

I disagree with calling it External resource when only one link is present. I think it should always be called External resources. This will look more consistent, and avoid problems when people forget to add the s when adding a second link. --Rune 11:51, 11 Jun 2005 (GMT)

Hm, "external resource" headlining a list of two links doesn't look wrong to you? That sort of problem stands out to me. It's not a big deal -- just fix it if you happen to notice it's wrong. Like a missing comma. --Graue 12:19, 11 Jun 2005 (GMT)

"External resource" headlining a list of two links looks wrong, but I don't think that's what Rune said - it's that "External resources" headlining a list of one link looks OK, and is preferable from a consistency standpoint. (I would agree btw) --Chris Pressey 17:32, 12 Jun 2005 (GMT)

Fair enough. My point was that "External resource" headlining a list of two links looks wrong and is therefore easy to spot (for me). We can just use "resources" consistently though. --Graue 18:12, 12 Jun 2005 (GMT)

Creating categories

"Categories are discussed at Esolang:Categorization. Please don't make a new category without discussing it at that category's talk page first."

So one is meant to start a discussion at Category talk:Yellow languages before creating Category:Yellow languages? Seems counter-intuitive. Normally talk pages belong to articles that already exist. Do many people here subscribe to the recent changes feed or any other that mean they will actually see it? Smjg 00:33, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Most active talkers in the IRC channel read recent changes once every day or so, or at least that's the impression I get. I agree it's awkward; everyone seems to use Esolang talk:Categorization in practice. —ehird 00:45, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

At least two admins check every change, and probably a bunch of non-admins too. (That said, Esolang talk:Categorization is not only the usual place to discuss them, but the place mentioned in the policy, so should probably be mentioned in the help page too.) --ais523 01:12, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Bot

Hi. I'm the owner of "Vandlen't", which doesn't have any anti-vandalism features yet. I'm working on the basics. But my bot edits aren't being flagged as bot edits, even though I set the bot flag to 1 in the API. I'm assuming a bot needs to be approved? Not sure. Can I have any help? --Vandlen't (talk) 03:41, 24 February 2023 (UTC)

Answering this very old question, but: the purpose of the bot flag is to hide edits from recent changes that would otherwise be too spammy, so it isn't set on bot edits unless either the bot is highly trusted and making a lot of repetitive edits that aren't interesting to look at on recent changes, or the edit was made by a spambot and has already been reverted (thus there's no reason to look at them and they would just spam up recent changes). Non-admins can't set the flag on their own, because malicious people could use that to hide what they were doing from recent changes. --ais523 21:25, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Question

"except in the Esolang: namespace"

Why? --None1 (talk) 11:13, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

about the first heading

in the first heading of this very article, it disputes almost everything about my existence on the wiki. one simple sentence, one simple starfish makes up one thing that everybody takes as true, as old moderators fade out and new ones fade in, what once was an assumption becomes reality. and then i come along, realizing the mistake in our ways, from may 2022 on. sandbox is not to be periodically erased, but instead meant to grow and grow to be the biggest it can be and not be chopped down. this one sentence is the reason why the sandbox got chopped down, and my memorial page got miscategorized. i had to take it to the source. 14:05, 17 June 2024 (UTC)

How should a user change the model of a page?

Title.

It's basically never correct to do that on this wiki. --ais523 13:56, 26 May 2026 (UTC)

another question

How do I add a contents table while creating a page? --RandomAnonyomous (talk) 00:18, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

see mw:Help:Tables —aadenboy (talk|contribs) 01:04, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

Caption text

Header text	Header text	Header text
Example	Example	Example
Example	Example	Example
Example	Example	Example

Cleverxia (talk) 01:17, 29 September 2026 (UTC)

I think they mean the table of contents at the beginning of every article. In that case, it's created automatically if there's enough headers in the article. In the case that you don't want the table of contents to appear, you'd have to put __NOTOC__ on its own line. –PkmnQ (talk) 01:20, 29 September 2026 (UTC)